[Avodah] spitting / sinat chinam

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 08:04:47PM +0200, Ben Waxman wrote:
>> 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.

It doesn't prove lehach'is. See my parenthetic about tinoq shenishba
and guilt.

Following the other side of a machloqes can't make one a rasha, no
matter how greviously wrong you think their side is. For that matter,
even if their side isn't even legitimate, unless it's something
they are capable of second-guessing their authority figures on, they
aren't resha'im.

Someone who follows DL poseqim can't be more of a rasha in the eyes
of anyone (even the Satmar Rav zt"l) than Rambam's opinion of Qaraim.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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