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Mizrachi Inspiration 5 · Rabbi Benjy's Shiur

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  Mizrahi Inspiration Share #5 Today we're going to discover
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  from Ralph Cooke's perspective where does this concept of
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  loving everybody come from? So Ralph Cooke teaches us the
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  love of mankind must be alive in the heart and the soul.
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  A love for each individual person and a love for all the
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  nations, said his son, Rod Svidar Cook.
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  The righteous man must fill his heart with love and nurture
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  within himself and Ahava a love for everyone.
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  This is a great insight. It seems like a great
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  innovation. But really, is it a simple
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  question? Lots of people have universal
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  love. Many religions and enlightened
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  people talk about social love and social justice.
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  And So what is a unique about the Jewish perspective?
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  What am I really teaching you? What are we learning here?
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  It began in the Torah and it began with Avraham Avino.
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  The world's recognition of the value of love comes from Avram.
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  Avino Avram is called Avraham My love, Avram Ahuvi.
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  He loved the world to all of its being with its video to explain
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  that we should reach the historical stage of Masha Rabeno
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  only upon the foundations of the love that Avraham started.
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  The Torah comes to us from Masha must have got the Torah.
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  Mount Sinai. We know that from the Mishna.
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  But I'll meet dot Our characteristics, the qualities
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  that we live, the values we live by, originated with Avraham.
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  A person only merits an acquisition of Torah on the
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  basis of the pure, refined qualities that they have.
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  The greater at Hamid Raham, greater.
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  A sage is in that Torah learning, and the more he
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  deserves the designation of you're a Torah scholar, the more
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  he's obligated to be filled with the love for all of the world.
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  The rabbi's filtered down the teaching as follows.
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  The everyone who has a good eye is a student of Avrahamavino.
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  Avramavino is all love and sympathy, loving Hashem and
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  loving mankind. Out of his love for Hashem, He
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  loves all people, the heaven and the earth, and all of creation.
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  He has the special attribute filling all of his being of a
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  good and sympathetic eye. His opposite, who is the counter
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  for Avraham, was the wicked Billam, who used the very same
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  eyes, the physical eyes, not to love, but to curse.
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  This aspect of love, to see the world in a sympathetic eye, is a
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  trait which the people of Israel inherited from Avramovino.
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  Understandably, loving all people is not a simple thing to
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  do. True love, says Rough Cook
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  demanded diligent work, years of study, deep inquiry into the
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  most exalted reaches of Divine Providence in the world.
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  Really, we can say like this one who truly loves the Creator
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  loves the creation which He created.
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  You can't truly love Hashem without loving what He did, what
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  He does, what He did. He hates the works which Hashem
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  has created. And you don't really love
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  Hashem, so how do we make sure we keep loving?
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  Well, that very first sentence in Shukhana Rukhva.
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  Actually, it's a passer can tell him she Vt Hasham La Negdi Tammy
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  that placed her sham performing. Always.
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  If you've got a sham before you, always.
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  And that is the focus of focus on Hashem and then the love for
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  Hashem comes out, then clearly you'll then be able to love
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  everything that Hashem created. But that requires that's
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  discipline. That requires effort.
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  This is prosaic concept is lovely ideas, but it's very,
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  very difficult to do that. Seeing Hashem in the world and
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  loving all people is a teaching which needs constant repetition
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  precisely because it is so readily forgotten.
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  It's a teaching which is constantly new.
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  Have a fantastic day.