Compassion, Free The Love

Compassion. In some ways it’s the most powerful of human emotions. It expresses itself in the lowest places, and extends the farthest from yourself. And It is rooted on high, deep within the human soul.

You love what speaks to you, what you relate to. You don’t love everybody and everything, you respond to the people that touch your heart in a special way.

But compassion can reach anybody.

You know a guy for years, you never liked him, have nothing in common, never saw any good within him. One day, out of the blue, tragedy strikes. All of the sudden you can’t work, your eyes are looking at the computer screen, but your mind is pulled by the sting in your heart. Your drawn to the guy’s home.

Its reach is far, it touches people whom you never meet, whose language you don’t understand, but your compassionate heart finds a way to communicate.

And It is rooted on high, deep within the human soul.

That’s why compassion has the magic that triggers love. After the tragedy hits that fellow, all of the sudden you begin to see how wonderful this guy is. The love, as if awakened from a deep sleep, begins to burn in your heart. The person you always knew of, but never cared enough to get to know, turns out to be a precious soul, your lucky to know him.

But you knew this person all along, where was the love? It was imprisoned beneath the coarseness of your heart, waiting patiently for a powerful force from deep within yourself, to free it. Compassion smashes the hardened exterior, allowing the flame of love to burst to freedom.

This is the Chasidic interpretation of the verse “to Jacob (compassion) who redeemed Abraham (love)”