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I see that the concept of Ahavas Yisroel is still having a hard time finding its place here, after all of these years .
Ivory: Where is your source? The forefather of the Moshiach, Dovid Hamelech, transgressed both privately and befarhesiyah. He was called out, and he did teshuva. Were his subjects and those who came after not obliged to love him? We all transgress. Sometimes we do it because we think its right or justified, sometimes we are ashamed of it. But each one of us does it, openly and not. You would have us hate each other and ourselves. That is a miserable existence. I can’t presume like so many do, to know what hashem wants of us. But he didn’t create us for misery.
somejewiknow: How do you know someone hates hashem, unless they actually say “I hate hashem?” The truth is you don’t know. And let’s say they did make that statement. Even then, the Truth is, you still don’t know. You don’t know anything about them, you don’t know anything about their losses, or challenges, or upbringing, You don’t know the balance sheet they may have full of Mitzvos and sacrifice. You don’t know what tzaar might have brought them to that statement – speak to a survivor of the Shoah, and you might begin to get a clue. Actually, you may know nothing at all, except the certainty of your own kedusha. As for loving reshayim; We say in the Hagodoh every single year that the rosho is at his father’s seder table. His father might be justly angered by his son, but he loves him enough to have him at his seder. Who are you to define loving the rosho (who is your brother, or neighbor, or fellow Jew) as sinas chinom? And even in the CC quoted by ujm, he didn’t advise one to hate the kofer or apikorus, rather, in the specific circumstances described, to mock their kefira.
In a time of such danger for the Jewish people, and with such a revealed need for achdus, maybe, just maybe, you might consider letting the Dayon HoEmes be the one to judge Jews, rather than arrogating that responsibility for yourself.