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Bais HaLevi #28 - Ahavas Yisroel
"In his brilliant essay on ahavas Yisrael, the Beis HaLevi, Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, beautifully explains the mitzvah of loving your fellow Jew. Who does the mitzvah apply to? When does it apply? What do I need to do to fulfill it properly? The Beis HaLevi also provides incentives to help us do the mitzvah in the best possible way." -ArtScroll Bais HaLevi on Ahavas Yisroel
Okay, everybody, welcome back to the Lech Teich Moser podcast. We continue the Bais Alevi on Havas Yisrael. We're in the middle of Paraket Aleph, finishing up chapter 11. V'asibu lezehu ya'an ki atzadik edem ishtamish. Now we're explaining. We explained yesterday that there's midas, and one person generally cannot possess the mida of being stingy and being a giver, but at the same time he can possess one midah that will allow him to be a huge gibber in the Bais Mejish and be a huge gibber, mighty gibber, courageous warrior in war. And the reason for that, even though the source of those midahs of courage, one is fearlessness and one is shkeida one is just not being fearless. It's just sitting at your seat and learning, like we see by Davne Malach. But the reason is Hashem created the world. That and Tevah Ha'adam. When it comes to good Midas, a person can possess many of the Midas, even if they conflict each other for the good. But when it comes further, and therefore the two extremes are appropriate in them, the judgments of Hashem are righteous altogether If they're done in truth, which means that you can have two conflicting Midas coexist in onees. If they're done in truth, which means that you can have two conflicting midas coexist in one person if they're done in truth, if a person's doing it for the will of a Kaddish, baruch Hu, without any other motivations at all for even in a mitzvah there may be impure motivations. For example, one who gives stah gives because he is soft-hearted and the reason why he gives the charity is because he can't tolerate the poverty of the pauper of the ani and wishes to pacify and mitigate his discomfort, but really it's for his own discomfort. Ay hameichiech l'reishayim yacholias mitzad ha'biros libay. Or if a person chastises the reshayim, it might be out of arrogance Vimkein einze emes v'yevsholias b'yachad. And if so, this is not genuine and the two cannot coexist. However, if they are genuine and they are righteous altogether, and in those circumstances, when it is a mitzvah to be cruel, he is cruel, and when it is a mitzvah to have mercy, he is merciful. However, regarding the wicked person, when it is a mitzvah to be cruel, he is cruel, and when it is a mitzvah to have mercy, he is merciful. Aval harosha.
Speaker 1:However, regarding the wicked person, haloy haydeh hu, akhri tivay ishri yislibay utishukasay haneksharas bitivay, he follows his nature, the visions of his heart and the desires that are tied to his nature, haloy. And since the evil impulses are distinct from one another. They therefore cannot be found in one person. As we said before, you can't have two negative traits in one person, like being stingy and being a giver, because if it's for the wrong reasons and it's just to fulfill one's inner desires, they cannot be found in one person. V'alem Amar Kosov. N'yisparadu kol payali oven dehin ufudarm zemizeh. The Apostle says in Telam the dispersed shall be all doers of evil, for they are distinct one from another. Kifi chalukas, tevam, according to the division of their nature, ze, according to the division of their nature, this one is drawn to this sin and is felt a difference in which is the opposite of it, which is why the two Midas, if they're done for the wrong intentions, cannot coexist in one person, and we will develop this further at Beza Hashem tomorrow.