אבל מקדש שני שהיו עוסקין בתורה ובמצות וגמילות חסדים מפני מה חרב מפני שהיתה בו שנאת חנם ללמדך ששקולה שנאת חנם כנגד שלש עבירות ע"ז גלוי עריות ושפיכות דמים רשעים היו אלא שתלו בטחונם בהקב"ה אתאן למקדש ראשון דכתיב (מיכה ג) ראשיה בשוחד ישפוטו וכהניה במחיר יורו ונביאיה בכסף יקסומו ועל ה' ישענו לאמר הלא ה' בקרבנו לא תבוא עלינו רעה לפיכך הביא עליהן הקב"ה ג' גזרות כנגד ג' עבירות שבידם שנאמר (מיכה ג) לכן בגללכם ציון שדה תחרש וירושלים עיין תהיה והר הבית לבמות יער ובמקדש ראשון לא הוה ביה שנאת חנם
Why was the First Temple destroyed? Because of three evils in it: idolatry, sexual immorality and bloodshed . . . But why was the Second Temple destroyed, seeing that during the time it stood people occupied themselves with Torah, with observance of precepts, and with the practice of charity? Because during the time it stood, hatred without rightful cause prevailed. This is to teach you that hatred without rightful cause is deemed as grave as all the three sins of idolatry, sexual immorality and bloodshed together.
~Yoma 9b
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I watched this clip of what is going on in Beit Shemesh. It made me cry.
I thought: Is it not obvious that this is Sinat Chinam in action? And then I thought: Of course not. Everyone thinks they have a reason for why they can and should hate others. They think their reason is the Torah. Imagine! According to them, the Torah says they should spit on seven-year-old girls, and that this is not Sinat Chinam. In fact, according to one person in the video, they are the victims- they are the ones who others hate baselessly.
Sinat Chinam destroyed our second Temple.
Who is to say whether it will destroy our State? If you truly believe the State of Israel is Reishit Tzmichat Geulateinu, then you know that it is God-given. What God gives, He can take away. He enabled the Babylonians to destroy our Beit HaMikdash and he can enable others to do away with the State.
And so it makes me sad when someone in that video calls out that no rules apply to them, only Torah and mitzvot. It's when people forget that Torah calls upon them to fulfill the Mitzvot Ben Adam L'Chaveiro that Sinat Chinam is able to insidiously enter our lives.
9 comments:
The state is not Reishit Tzmichat Geulateinu, what is happening now sort of proves that. These sort of things would not be happening in the times of our geulah. However, that is all irrelevant. What is taking place in Israel is a disgrace. There is no excuse. It is high time the police stop being tolerant with these idiots and treat them the way law breakers deserve to be treated.
Two statements caught my attention in the video:
1. A non-chareidi(and yet an observant Jewesss) saying that the chareidi are building an "Iran ktana" in Bet-Shemesh.
2. A secular man stating to the chareidi man that he built the city in the 50's, and that "wherever the chareidim go, they make it worse for the Jews, and for the Bible".
Although blanket statements are not appropriate in most cases, in this particular case, however, both statements are true and valid.
Jewish fundamentalism is not the solution for creating a religious state "whether one likes it or not".
You know what I would do? I would strip these Bet-Shemesh chareidim who spit on little girls and women of all their government subsidized privileges (including apartments, of course) and force them to get a job for a change. These more frumer than thou Jews simply have it too good and that's at the root of the problem.
Great post!! Keep them coming!
Anonymous 6:18 - your judgment call is myopic. The whole "reishit tzmichat ge'ulateinu" is an acknowledgement that the state is only possibly the hint of the beginning of redemption.
Remember, Ezra's return to Israel from Persia took place with only a handful of Jews, many of whom were intermarried.
G-d works in strange ways. The drama of the Jewish people is complicated and not bound to any individual's expectations of what it should look like.
That said, this is one of those cases where Jews are responsible for making their own history, and this horrific situation of abuse and gender segregation must stop.
i agree with you . the sinat chinam that is going on is horrible and it frightens me.it is such a chilul hashem. this is why the second bais hamikdash was destroyed.
when I lived in Meah Shearim for a year, one Friday night there were tourists walking through, and a resident starts yelling at them, and they had no clue what he was saying. I though to myself: this is why the Beis Hamikdash isn't rebuilt. Instead of being friendly and being mashpia in a positive way - we do things this way because we feel it prevents x, y or z, they yell at others who are not like them and say we don't want you, etc. (and look like lunatics while doing so).
Very sad but unfortunately not surprising.
Yes, darn those chareidim and their awful sinat chinam. I hate people like that.
Not that I disagree with your disgust with their actions, but sinat chinam has never existed in the first person. No one has ever decried "our sinat chinam" or G-d forbid "my sinat chinam", which makes it a lot trickier to solve.
Internal struggles between various religious and political factions did, quite literally, destroy the second temple, but I think that Israel has a while to go before that point, if only because we are slightly better organized. At the moment, I think that our religious extremists are still a small enough minority with enough qualms about actual violence that they are more a social problem than an existential one.
" no rules apply to them, only Torah and mitzvot"
I don't think that the Torah permits harassing and spitting on 8 year old girls.
i hate to say this, but the mother of the child spread far more hatred then the spitter.
so you tell me, which one is the more misguided fool?
as you so enjoy crying, here you go.
http://www.kikarhashabat.co.il/%D7%9E%D7%97%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%93-%D7%A6%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%A8-%D7%97%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%99-%D7%AA%D7%A7%D7%A3-%D7%90%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A8.html
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