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With all due respect to Rav Kook, I don't think the Torah wants us to
do *anything* "chinam".<br>
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Lisa<br>
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On 11/16/2013 10:43 PM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:cantorwolberg@cox.net">cantorwolberg@cox.net</a> wrote:
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The remarkable Chief Rabbi, Abraham Isaac Kook, so moved by R’ Akiva,<br>
proclaimed that if Jerusalem and the Temple were destroyed because of <br>
<i>sinas chinam</i>, the new Jewish Commonwealth would come alive by
virtue<br>
of <i>ahavas chinam. </i><br>
Furthermore, R’ Kook insisted upon the chassidic dictum that “In order
to<br>
love one who is not completely wicked, it is enough if one is only an
incomplete<br>
<i>tzaddik</i>, but in order to love one who is wholly wicked, it is
necessary to be a <br>
perfect <i>tzaddik</i>.”
<div>I’m sorry to say that I see very little <i>ahavas chinam </i>amongst
our own people.</div>
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