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AviraDeArah
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Ujm is correct, but there’s a big caveat that he’s missing…. it’s open pesukim… רְאַת ה’ שְׂנֹאת רָע in mishlei, “halo mesanecha Hashem esneh(tehilim 139:21)….”, Rambam hilchos rotzeach 13:14, chinuch 238…rambam holds that we hate him after seeing him sin , chinuch holds that it’s only if you’ve rebuffed him for his sins several times

But come most of the achronim including the chazon ish in YD 2 28 and say that nowadays we don’t know how to give proper tochacha, so these halachos no longer apply. It is perhaps for this reason that the tanya even in his time advocates seemingly not to hate reshoim.

Rav shlomo zalman – a great lover of every Jew – did not hold like the chazon ish that everyone today is a tinok shenishba.

Also whether or not there is a mitzvah to hate or a mitzvah to love reshoim, no one is saying that we should be misga’eh on them and think that we are definitely better than them. The rambam writes how only Hashem can know the true measure of one’s sins snd mitzvos…we all know people who are barely frum who go out kf their way to buy expenses esrogim or do a lot of chessed; those things are real. The chozeh of lublin was once asked on chanukah to curse a moser, an informant. He said, “how can I curse him when he is lighting up shomayim with his neiros?”.

Gaavah is gaavah, and unless you’re talking about understanding the chashivus of who you are relative to your being a ben torah, a “gaavah dekedushah”, which is more about what Hashem gave you and about gratitude for the madrega you’re on….then it’s a horrible middah…the only middah which Hashem calls a toe’va (mishlei 16:5)