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Get StartedOf Monsters and Men (Part 3 of 5)
Kamtza And Bar Kamtza: What Is Baseless Hatred, Anyway?
Rabbi Fohrman asks whether the people in the Kamzta and Bar Kamtza stories are regular people or monsters, and subtly shows us how we may have similar tendencies, of which we are not even aware. He then describes two different mechanisms that we subconsciously employ to gauge our anger and appropriate response, differentiating untrammeled rage from righteous rage.
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