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Mizrachi Inspiration 7 · Rabbi Benjy's Shiur

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  Mizrahi Inspiration Sheer #7. We've spoken over the last three
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  days about the need to love, the absolute essential need to love
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  every single person, every single Jew.
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  But here we take it one stage further.
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  In Ravcrook's writings we find that the heart must be filled
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  with love for all of the world, for all peoples, for every man,
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  for all humankind. In the Torah, there's a precept
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  for Hafta Loreja camorra to love your neighbor like yourself.
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  And we know it's a clau gadol Batara, great principle in Tora
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  thought. This is obvious, but there are
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  levels of love. The special book of ethics
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  called The Gates of Kudusha by Rafheim Vital, one of the great
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  students of the Ariza or cabalists.
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  The Kudusha of the Ari was unique.
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  He was on a different, on different frequency.
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  He belonged to a special class of people.
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  His life is not measurable in the quantity of years he lived,
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  but in quality and tremendous quality, says Rob Cook.
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  And he's told that when the Iriza departed from the world,
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  he remained lucid until the final moment of the departure of
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  his soul. Great people gathered around
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  him, students who are fortunate to have learned from him during
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  the brief time he lived in this world.
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  He turned to them and said, Do you think you know something of
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  what we learned together these years?
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  Know that you know nothing at all?
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  Of course these great, great, great men were startled and
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  speechless. The Gather students had a
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  profound love for Rabkhine Vital, the foremost scholar
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  amongst them. One of them of the students
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  turned to the Ari and said It's true that we don't know
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  anything, but what of Rabkhine, your greatest student?
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  How can you say that he doesn't know anything?
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  The Ari responded. He knows a little.
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  The same Rabkhine, the closest person to the Ari, the foremost
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  in the holy Kingdom of the Ari, wrote the book Gates of Kudusha.
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  The book offers some special guidance.
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  Love your neighbour as yourself. This is a precept which concerns
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  the love of every Jew. But to achieve Roha Kardash, be
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  able to be so deeply connected with Hashem, waiting for this,
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  one must love everybody. Love your neighbour as yourself
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  refers to the Jewish people. One must love all people, not
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  just juice, an essential ingredient in attaining Rojakot.
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  There's divine inspiration that the heart be filled with a
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  tenderness and love which encompasses all the nations of
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  the world. This elevates a person to the
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  heights of divine inspiration. Now this doesn't mean that you
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  should fall in love and get married.
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  No laws forbidding intermarriage, even drinking
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  wine that's produced by non Jews eating of non casual food.
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  They obviously have to be strictly enforced that I have
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  that the love of non Jewish people does not contradict the
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  different lifestyle which the Tara prescribes for Amistra.
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  For the Jewish people. It's a people who will dwell
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  alone, says the Tarain. I'm the Vadajishka and shall not
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  be reckoned amongst the nation of Agayemlayd Khasha.
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  That's the there's words of of Bill.
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  I'm the prophet. Rather, it teaches the love of
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  all people, even though there are clear halactic boundaries
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  which have to be maintained. Does its all-encompassing love
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  also include those who hate our people, says Ralph Sviggy Hooda
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  that his father's teachings imply that it did in relation to
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  extraordinarily evil people. There's room to direct hate
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  against the aspect of evil in them.
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  The general role is a love for each and every nation and
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  people. Think about that one today.
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  How do we manifest it? Do we achieve it?
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  Do we think it's too much for us?
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  Have a very good day.