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Is it permissible to hate those who disregard the Corona guidelines?

שו”תCategory: moralIs it permissible to hate those who disregard the Corona guidelines?
asked 5 years ago

Hello,
Is it permissible to hate those who disregard the Corona guidelines?
Kind regards, Benjamin

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מיכי Staff answered 5 years ago

No. Also because it is possible to get a dunam for a pound of right. Also because the guidelines are not always the wisest step, and not every detail in them is important. And also because even if it is true, they certainly have other sides that are positive. Not every wrong step a person takes justifies hatred.
(I’m already expecting a reflex with the boring and expected questions about my words about the Haredim, which I will no longer answer)

בנימין גורלין replied 5 years ago

How do the words of the rabbi agree with the Gemara in Pesachim 132?
“Rabbi Shmuel bar Rav Yitzchak said, Rabbi, it is permissible to hate him, as it is written (Exodus 23:5) If you see a donkey that hates you lying under its load, who hates a stranger? And is it not a hateful hate, as they say, a hateful hate for Israel and not a hateful hate for a stranger, but a hateful hate for Israel, a hateful hate for a native, and it is written (Leviticus 19:17) You shall not hate your brother in your heart, except as David testified, I am a sinner, I have made a covenant with you, and

מיכי Staff replied 5 years ago

Benjamin, I'm sure you could have answered that yourself.
I didn't write that no one should be hated. I wrote that not every wrong step justifies hatred. Even when someone does something forbidden, the question is why and how they do it. If you hate every person around you who breaks a prohibition, I think there's not a person left who you don't hate (I'm willing to assume that includes even yourself).

בנימין גורלין replied 5 years ago

Rabbi Michi, I will phrase the question a little differently: Who is allowed to hate?

מיכי Staff replied 5 years ago

Regarding hatred, there is never a permission: either an obligation (as for its source, I remember an article in the בהמין by someone named Rabbi Monk, I think, and briefly here: https://ph.yhb.org.il/08-01-05/) or a prohibition. In principle, there is an obligation to hate a systematic offender who does so intentionally and with gross negligence.
And yet, at the same time, there is also an obligation to love him from other aspects of himself. On this non-trivial logic, see book 11 in the Talmudic Logic series: The Platonic Nature of the Talmud).

הפוסק האחרון replied 5 years ago

The LORD is righteous, and the wicked is tested; and he who loves violence hates his own soul.

Those who love the LORD hate evil.

? replied 5 years ago

Indeed, evil should be hated, but where is it mentioned that we should hate the wicked there?

העיקר להתרחק מהם replied 5 years ago

From those who neglect to guard against the Corona virus, and also from those who guard properly – one should stay away from them, not to stand in their mother’ s'arms, and also wear a mask so as not to be infected with their breath, and your sign: ‘And healing and distancing and salvation’ = As those who keep distancing – there is salvation. And he says: ‘And on the mustache there is a veil’ 🙂

With the blessing of ‘He who guards his soul will stay away’, Mis Antrop

משה replied 5 years ago

Is there an obligation to hate someone who exceeds the speed limit or someone who crosses a red light?

mjh - צחי replied 5 years ago

Is it permissible to hate those who disregard the Corona guidelines?
Quote from the answer – “Also because the guidelines are not always the wisest step, and not every detail in them is important”
wow!! wow!! It is simply unbelievable that it will be told!!!

A few months ago on this site. In column no.’ 290 (mainly and in other columns) it was written and implied that the Ministry of Health guidelines are almost as good as “Torah from Sinai” while the Haredi rabbis do not understand anything and blaspheme the name of God. And the Ministry of Health was needed to save the Haredi from themselves.

Finally, the tables have turned and here it is “the guidelines are not the wisest step” and ”not every detail in them is important”. Aye!!! I sat and waited patiently for this sentence and it came faster than I expected.

Now comes the parade of excuses and explanations that the above quote meant so and so and so. But no more friends.

There is not enough information about the coronavirus. Opinions among medical professionals are divided. In advanced countries around the world, they have tried to deal with it in different ways, and as it is written, – there is no knowing whether the guidelines are the wisest step.

We have been blessed that here in the Land of Israel, our situation is good compared to the world. Of course, by the grace of God. And thanks to the righteous who live among us. And of course, the Ministry of Health also gives credit. (Despite the fact that they have all kinds of interests)

And when will the above quote come?? No less and no more in the week of the “Ice” incident!!!! Unbelievable!!!
See the response on the website to the query "The one who ponders over his masters"

מבריח מן הקצה replied 5 years ago

A delayed reflex should be considered if it is considered a reflex and practiced during leisure time.

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