RABBI WEIN ON HATRED

The rabbis of the Talmud have taught us that there are two opposite emotions that distort our thinking and cause human beings – even otherwise capable and talented human beings – to behave in an irrational manner. These two emotions on the surface appear to be polar opposites. They are love and hate. But psychologists have long taught us that not only are these emotions not necessarily opposite or contradictory, one to another, but they are two different expressions of feeling and emotion that overwhelm our sense of rationality and propriety.