Doing Good to the Wicked Is Doing Evil/ doing a fafour to someone bad is doing wrong

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Doing Good to the Wicked Is Doing Evil/ doing a fafour to someone bad is doing wrong

Helping a wicked person is as if you had done harm to yourself.

("The creatures say: 'If you did good to the wicked, you did evil; do not do good to the wicked, and evil will not come upon you'" — Vayikra Rabbah (Vilna), Acharei Mot, parasha 22)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

טוֹב לְרַע עָשִׂיתָ -רַע עָשִׂיתָ

Definition (Hebrew)

עֶזְרָה וְסִיּוּעַ לְאָדָם רַע כָּמוֹהָ כְּאִילּוּ עָשִׂיתָ רַע בְּעַצְמְךָ.

("הוּא דִּבְרָיְתָא אִמְרִי טָב לְבִישׁ עָבַדְתְּ בִּישֹׁא עָבַדְתְּ, טָב לְבִישׁ לָא תַּעֲבִיד וּבְיֵשׁ לָא מָטִי לָךְ"- וַיִּקְרָא רַבָּה (וִילְנָא) פָּרָשַׁת אַחֲרֵי מוֹת פָּרָשָׁה כב)

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