[Avodah] Redemption

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 08/06/17 14:28, Daniel Israel wrote:
 >> The idea that revenge is not a legitimate or worthy goal is not
 >> Jewish.

> An intriguing thesis, but I think you have hardly made your case. 
>   Perhaps the issur on taking revenge is, so to speak, a middos 
> chassidus but I think the simpler reading is that revenge is bad.

But there is no issur on taking revenge.  There is only an issur on 
doing so againstyour own people, because you are commanded to love them 
like yourself, and you wouldn't want revenge against yourself.  But the 
objection to revenge in itself does not come from any Jewish source.

> That doesn’t mean onesh is bad, consequences are bad, or the like.
> Going back to RAM’s original question: who says the go’el hadam
> should be only thinking of revenge. Perhaps he should try to rise
> above his anger and act only for kinnos ha’emes.

He's not go'el ha'emes, he's go'el hadam.




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