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https://yahadut.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/02-03-16.jpeg16201080If a person hurts or insults someone else, it is a mitzva to reprimand the offender. This makes him or her aware that what they said or did was hurtful and gives them a chance to repair the relationship. As it says, “You shall not hate your kinsfolk in your heart. Reprove your kinsman but incur no guilt because of him. . . Love your fellow as yourself; I am the Lord” (Leviticus 19:17-18). If instead we hide our upset and hate the person in our heart, we transgress two mitzvot: the prohibition to hate and the mitzva to reprimand and to love. Since the goal is to correct, not to attack or to assert superiority, criticism must be delivered respectfully. Care must be taken to minimize any insult or distress. Sometimes, upon being informed our behavior was hurtful, we say we did not intend to hurt or insult. We ...