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Bais HaLevi #20 - Ahavas Yisroel
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Okay, everybody, welcome back to the Lech Teich Moser podcast. We continue with the Beis Aleviah and Havas Yisrael, Perek Vov, Chapter 6. Hasino kiremes, averis hamuras. Hatred leads to serious transgressions. Gam di chamay da haba havi klalko la teira. Just as we have learned that love encompasses all of the teira, as we learned from Rebbe Kiva Kimo yichken gam asino hu mavoi v. Similarly, hatred is the entrance and gateway to all the sins found in the Torah. As it says in the Pasuk in Heshea their hearts have become detached from God. Now they will become desolate, meaning that they are desolate through their sins. Reveal Yadzer says one who hates his fellow, it is as if he is a shaykh khidamim, a murderer himself. So we see from Reveal Yadzer that it's no simple thing. It's very far from simple. A person who hates his fellow, it's as if he's a murderer. Rahman al-Azlan. Moving on to Parag Zayin, chapter 7.
Speaker 0:Hatred also brings on the serious sin of Lashon Hara of slander. By means of hatred, he reveals the shortcomings of his fellow and he also comes to spread lies, Falsely attributing deficiencies to his fellow. We already know from the Gemara in Saita the magnitude of the sin of Lashon Hara. Anyone ever needs to learn the entire Chafetz Chaim, the entire Sefer Shemes HaLashon in one day, in one minute. This is it.
Speaker 0:There are four classes of sinners that will not merit to greet the Divine Presence. So we're all here in this world to reach and to be born with the Eberster. So if a person wants to not do that, he should speak Lashon Hara. And if a person does not want to do that, he wants to be close to the Eberster, he wants to have the best for himself. One should definitely abstain from this. And what will enforce and increase the chances of meriting this is through Ahavas, Yisrael, the Bais, Levi tells us.
Speaker 0:The other classes that will not merit Kat Shkarim liars, Kat Chanefim flatterers, Kat Leitzim scoffers, Kat Masapri, Lashon Hara and the class, as we said, of what is the common denominator between all these? They all emanate from the sin of the tongue, from the use of speech. This is what Isaiah says. Woe is me, for I am doomed, for I am a man of impure lips, For my eyes have seen the King Hashem, One who stumbles into sin through ruining, through being a tamtim, through impure lips. He will not merit to greet the face of their Bani Shalom, and even more than this when he sees his fellow doing commendable things, good deeds, his hatred will increase because of it. The whole Tishu Kosei and his entire desire will be that his fellow's deeds will be unsuccessful.
Speaker 0:When a person hates other people, they can't see the good in other people. Then, even when the other people, his fellows, are doing good, he's going to just say everything is bad, they're all rotten. Why? Because he sees everything through impurity. He sees everything through anger, through jealousy, through kinah and taiva, and the apostle can tell him. The Apostle says the outcome is that such a person hates his fellow's avida of Hashem and ultimately, again, this is a display of his own hatred, even if it's unintentional, even if it's not even in his subconscious. He thinks he's a big tzaddik, but he has one little pagam of sinna sisrel. But no, this defines him. If he's a person that can't love other people, he's always looking for bad, he's always looking for other people to be unsuccessful then such a person can't be born with the Eberster, because he's hating all Hashem's creations. And when a person does that, then he's we don't even want to say the word, but he's disliking the Eberster himself. Rachman O Letzlan.