The test of
virtuous hatred, then, is the ability to hate our friends.
One wonders, then, why the objects of «
virtuous hatred» Mr. Soloveichik lists are almost all also enemies of the Jewish people.
Hating sin, then, is the only
virtuous hatred.
Admittedly, reading the heart is difficult, but we need some test to distinguish
virtuous hatred of evil from vicious hatred of our enemies.