[Avodah] spitting / sinat chinam

[Ben Waxman]

On 12/28/2011 12:33 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> Hating someone out to destroy you or your fealty to the Torah, which
> motivates one not to emulate them, and to actively fight them.
>
> You are allowed to hate someone guilty of hating the Borei, for example.
> (I write "guilty of" rather than "who hates", to avoid tinoq shenishba
> tangents.)
BW: The second one I find problematic because you can always say that 
the other guy hates God, that the way he does mitzvot proves that he is 
a rasha l'hachiss.

I don't want to get too much into current events, but a prominent 
Chareidi rav declared the candle lighting ceremony at the demonstration 
to be a "teqes reformi". Since a woman (Naama Margolis) participated, 
she violated his interpretation of "kavod bat melech". Therefore the 
cermony wasn't mehadrin and ipso facto it is reformi.  This is what he 
said. So going from there to declaring that these people hate the Borei 
is a very very small jump, maybe not a jump at all.

Ben