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Mizrachi Inspiration 2 · Rabbi Benjy's Shiur

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  Mizrahi Inspiration sheer #2 Yesterday we learned how vitally
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  important it is to understand the true nature of the Jewish
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  people, that we are a community chosen by Hashem for a purpose
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  in the world, and the Torah helps us to manifest our
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  national purpose and destiny, says Rob Svia of the cook Rob
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  Cook's son. He said that learning to love
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  our nation, Israel, was the foremost educational task of our
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  time. Learning to love each and every
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  single Jew. Once we recognize individually,
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  once we get into our minds, once we live with a sense of pride
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  and uprightness. In capitalistic language you
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  could say Mohin the gutless, an expansive sense of self, not to
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  the point of conceit or arrogance, but to recognize the
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  opportunity that living provides us and what Jewish living is all
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  about living. According to Tora, then we
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  extend our hands in friendship and brotherhood to each and
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  every single person. True ahava true love is an
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  encompassing orientation to all of creation, which is really
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  only achieved once we study Torah.
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  And in Torah leads us to greater sense of emuna, of belief and
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  faith and connection, not only to our Shim, but in ourselves
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  and our ability, as in the lion, in Moda ani, rapper, emuna taka.
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  Great is your faithfulness in me that I am capable of fulfilling
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  the destiny for which and the purpose for which I was created.
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  I think modern living has created these artificial cliques
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  within our people that we don't recognize the other as being as
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  valuable as ourselves. And perhaps it's manifestation
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  of low self esteem, lack of awareness of the collective goal
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  of our people. But we need to be attentive to
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  each and every single human being, every single one.
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  We must try to recognize their needs before they express them
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  and be there for each other. That is the community that we
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  are trying to create, Once after a class, a student arthroposvid,
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  the cook. Which is preferable?
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  To be religious and anti Zionist or to be a Zionist and not
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  religious the Russia Shiva outside in a loud voice.
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  We need to love all of Ami's trial.
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  It isn't our task to judge the value of Jews.
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  If you think this is just wishy washy fairy tales, can I just
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  remind you that in the sit there we say every single day in the
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  Brach before the Shama, say Ahavaraba Avtanu, you have loved
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  us with the great love, Hashemilokenu shamao Gods kemla
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  gidola, with we Tera Hammataleno and with surpassing compassion.
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  Have you had compassion on us? Hashem has special love for each
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  and every one of us. That's not a love for certain
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  people, a love for the whole of our nation.
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  Just as Hashem's love for the whole Jewish people encompasses
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  everybody, so must we. And following the ways of
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  Hashem, we have to love the whole of the Jewish people.
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  How did the Kohanim give a broca to the people?
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  They say the Varakhatamoy Israel, but I have to bless the
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  nation. That's their duty.
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  But they say it with love. That's part of it.
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  And if there's a problem between the Cohen and the people, then
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  he can't bless them because you can't bless someone that you
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  don't truly love. So these concepts are all
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  encoded in our doverning and the Torah.
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  Let us manifest them as expressions of living life
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  according to the the values that we espouse, the words we say in
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  our press. The Torah we learn can't just
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  be. Lip service has to penetrate our
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  heart and our minds, and that is what we need to try and work on
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  today and continue building our beautiful community.
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  Have a great day.