Love your fellow as yourself, this is the entire Torah.
The commandment to love a fellow is emphasized in the Chasidic teachings and the Chasisdic life style.
The big question is HOW? How can you love someone else as yourself? Even your best friend will inevitably get you upset sometimes?
A person does not get on his own nerves. A person does not hate himself even when he knows that he did something wrong. The sages in their wisdom have said: “A man does not see his own faults”.
Why not? Don’t you know your own shortcomings better then anyone else? Who truly knows your weaknesses if not yourself? Yet you love yourself profoundly, and against that backdrop all of your faults have no significance at all, they are irrelevant.
When someone else discovers a fault of yours you become furious. The other person who lacks that powerful backdrop of love sees only the default and that dominates his perspective.
This then is the key to “love your fellow as yourself” when you love your fellow you will not see his faults just as you don’t see your own.
Chasidus teaches that when we develop this attitude toward other people G-d does the same to us. The verse states “he sees iniquity however he does not meditate on it”, G-d knows of it but it is insignificant because we are part of him and “a man does not see his own faults”.
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Monday, November 5, 2007
Shabbos Parshas CHAYY SARAH 5768
Chasidus - DERECH MITZVOSECHA – AHAVAS YISRAEL.
We discussed the importance of accepting the Mitzvah to love a fellow before the prayers.
The first idea is that to ascend on high our soul has to be complete. Since all our souls are interconnected we each have a part of everyone’s soul within ourselves. Therefore if we disconnect from someone else by hating that person we are in effect pushing away part of ourselves leaving us crippled.
The second point explained in the MAMAR is: in our source which is the infinite light of G-d we all are one. We want to connect to our source through prayer. If we don’t feel that way then we can’t unite with the light of G-d.
We came up with the following example. When two brother’s fight, and then one of the brothers wants to connect to the father, the father can’t accept the child completely, because the father is the source of both children and to him they are both important he therefore cannot accept one child separating from the other.
We discussed the importance of accepting the Mitzvah to love a fellow before the prayers.
The first idea is that to ascend on high our soul has to be complete. Since all our souls are interconnected we each have a part of everyone’s soul within ourselves. Therefore if we disconnect from someone else by hating that person we are in effect pushing away part of ourselves leaving us crippled.
The second point explained in the MAMAR is: in our source which is the infinite light of G-d we all are one. We want to connect to our source through prayer. If we don’t feel that way then we can’t unite with the light of G-d.
We came up with the following example. When two brother’s fight, and then one of the brothers wants to connect to the father, the father can’t accept the child completely, because the father is the source of both children and to him they are both important he therefore cannot accept one child separating from the other.
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