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Mizrachi Inspiration 4 · Rabbi Benjy's Shiur

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  Mizrahi inspiration Sheer #4. Today's idea is probably one of
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  the more famous quotes that people know from Ralph Cooke and
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  it goes like this. Since groundless hatred Seenat
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  Khinam caused the destruction of the Second Temple as per the
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  Gomara in Yuma Daft Das on the base page 9 B, we have to
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  increase unconditional Ahava Ahavat Khinam to love just
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  because you do, not because there's an advantage in loving
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  or you're going to achieve anything.
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  This love exists regardless of any shortcomings in the beloved
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  and without any conditions that have to be met.
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  Even with all of the deficiencies and imperfections
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  of people. Ahava must be total.
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  Love has to ignore anything that might get in its way.
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  As the prophet Harriet tells us, let none of you devise evil in
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  your hearts against his neighbor.
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  There can be great differences in personalities or
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  disagreements, in learning Torah or debating the correct world
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  outlook, the Hashkoff, or whatever it might be.
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  True love transcends all of this and surrounds all of the Jewish
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  people. This is the eternal love of
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  Hashem for His people. And again, if you think this is
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  fanciful theoretical concepts, just open a siddha.
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  We say these words every single day, so at some point we have to
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  either stop saying them, we don't feel them.
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  That's obviously the wrong approach.
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  Or to begin feeling and synthesizing the words we say in
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  the Siddha with our thoughts. We say every night in Marif and
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  the 2nd brochure before the Shimah Ahavat Olam Bates Israel
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  Amha Ahafta with everlasting love.
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  Have you loved your people, the House of Israel?
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  That love is constant. That's how we have to respond to
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  each other because that is how Hashem responds to us.
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  Now if you don't feel that, then we need to work on it.
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  A lack of true love into the Jewish people manifests itself
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  in a lack of unity which weakens our nations, our nation, and
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  complicates our situation in the land of is of Israel.
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  Just you look at the news 2023, the weak of Tish above.
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  There is baseless hatred, there is division in the nation, there
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  is. It's quite shocking that the
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  history people talk about Jewish history not being linear, but
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  being a spiral and reengaging with the energy that when it
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  comes to Pesak we engage with freedom and emancipation.
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  And when it comes to SOCOT we're grateful for the things we have.
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  Well, it's quite tragic that we are reengaging with the spiral
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  form of Jewish history in the week of Tishabov, with hatred
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  and divisions in our people on the level that we haven't seen
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  for a significant time. And the final thought for today,
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  the rabbis ask why would the armies of Akhav?
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  Akhav was this wicked king married to is Zeva, a lady
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  called Jezebel and they were very much into idolatry
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  alongside the worship of Hoshem. But they caused chaos for the
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  Jewish people in our relationship with Hoshem.
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  But why were their armies successful where the whereas the
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  army of Shaul Hamer king soul fell in battle?
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  Why did it get wrong for the king of Israel?
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  He was far superior spiritually than Akhav.
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  The robbers answered that although Akhav was wicked, there
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  was loyalty and love between the people in his time.
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  Loss and horror wasn't hurt. Whereas in Charles timing time
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  of King Soul, even though it was an era of great study, came
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  righteous people. That was a lack of loyalty and
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  love between people. Gossip was spoken all over the
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  place and when King David's whereabouts were revealed to
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  King Soul by the informers it led to further chaos.
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  So the rabbi's identified that because there was a lack of
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  unity, despite their spiritual righteousness, they fell in
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  battle. Come back tomorrow, let's learn
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  a little bit more for now. Have a very lovely day.