Who says Jewish weakness is not a chillul Hashem?
any rabbi other than rabbi kahane seems to define it as a jew sinning in public.
so if a gentile desecrates a torah scroll and you a jew stand by, it's a negative thing but not a chillul hashem.
If Jewish weakness is defined by letting the goyim step on you and not defending yourself, then it certainly is.
not chillul hashem.
maybe it is in a biblical definition of the term, but not a halachic, from what I understand from any rabbi I have spoken to.
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But his idea was not something out of the blue. It is a basic in Judaism. If Israel is defeated in war, the nations can then say "where is your G-d" etc. Same if we are prevented from doing a slew of commandments or we live in constant fear, etc.
I said it myself already, it's in the bible , as chillul hashem.
But that is not the halachic definition of chillul hashem.
Also, who says Chanukah had no halachic basis? It got rid of a lot of avoda zara and its practitioners in the Land of Israel, didn't it?
From what I have read, and this halacha is well known.
The halacha is very passive. If somebody says "do idol worship or die", you die rather than idol worship. It doesn't say kill the thug.
The halacha is that if an evil regime tries to force you to sin, or die. Then you die. This is well known. Because you cannot do a chillul hashem. (somebody told me that that gemara was developed after the chanukah period, so that way perhaps chanukah is ok). It doesn't say kill the guy that forces you. It may be OK to do it, may be good to do it. Zealotry. But it's not halachic
Suppose there are idol worshipping jews in the land of israel. Is it halacha to kill them? To force them out? I know of no such halacha. Similarly if genttiles are doing it there. A chillul hashem is if a jew sins publically. Not if a gentile does.
If a jew just stands by, then I wonder. it's perhaps not honouring G-d enough or not loving his fellow jew enough, but it's not a chillul hashem to stand by. But if he stands by in his neighbours blood, then I suppose it would be a chillul hashem. But the gemara mentions nothing of it, just dying. It may well be, that once the enemy is killing jews, we have to kill them. But that is halacha regarding self defence. Nothing to do with chillul hashem.