Reply To: Bain Adam L'chaveiro Vs. Bain Adam L'makom

Haleivi: I agree with your post until the last line which you state: “and the difference between those Mitzvos which happen to apply to your friend and those that don’t, is nothing at all (other than the means of rectifying a transgression).”

Here is where you deviate again from the truth. As you pointed out in the beginning of your post, the underlying mitzvah, which is the basis for all mitzvos bain adam l’chaveiro in it’s ‘simple understanding form’, is the mitzvah to be a naturally kind and good hearted person. As Rabbi Akiva says “Vi’uhavta L’reiacha Kamoacha Zeh Klal Godol B’Torah”-meaning that naturally loving your fellow is the basis of all mitzvos bain adam l’chaveiro in the Torah [in its ‘simple understanding’ form]. So then how can you state at the end of your post that there is absolutely NO difference between trangressing mitzvos bain adam l’makom to transgressing mitzvos bain adam l’chaveiro; aren’t you also trangressing an additional principle in the Torah of V’Uhavta L’reiacha Kamoacha in the process of the transgression of mitzvos bain adam l’chaveiro, which is not present with the transgression of mitzvos bain adam l’makom?