Don't Shoot the Messenger
So here is the chiddush I learned this Shabbat. It was really exciting So we all know that the first Beit Hamikdash was destroyed because we transgressed the three cardinal sins; adultery, idolatry, and murder. The second was destroyed due to sinat chinam. That's not the chiddush, If you think about it for a moment. Does it make sense? We served idols, had affairs and murdered..Hashem forgave us and gave us the Beit Hamikdash 70 years later, but Sinat Chinam.. thats what is keeping us in Galut?!! If you think about it it really doesn't make any sense. So here's the chiddush. Sinat Chinam is typically translated as baseless hatred, which I always thought meant not liking someone for no reason. We all have that one person that rubs us the wrong way. You cannot point your finger on it, they never did anything to you but you just don't like them. That's what I always thought was sinat chinam. This caused me endless grief because here i was guilty of the exact reas...