A klal (major concept) in the Torah and a part of a Pasuk
(verse) in the Torah, found in Vayikrah, is Ve’ahavta
Lere’echa Kamocha. Love your neighbor like you love yourself.
This pasuk is directly linked to ben hametzarim, the time we are in right now (the 3 weeks between
17 Tammuz and 9 Av). This time is known for us to work together a sa nation to
promote unity and brotherhood love between us, because it is known from the
Gemara that the previous Bet HaMikdash was destroyed due to the hatred between
Jews in their time. Also it is known that the opposite of the sin is what
causes good times to arrive. Therefore, in our case we must work on brotherhood
love in order to fix the sin of Sinat
Hinam (hatred between brothers) and if the Bet HaMikdash hasn’t been built
yet, it is clear proof that there is still hatred between us.
Oy yo yoi. How much do we need to focus on this in order to
get Shamayim on our side to bring Mashiah?! So what can one do now, today,
tomorrow in order to bring us closer to Mashiah (and yes, each action even the
spiritually lowest individual affects the arrival of the Mashiah because we are
each extremely valuable)? We can work on the pasuk: Ve’ahavta Lere’echa Kamocha by thinking: just like I have bad
characteristic traits such as arrogance, anger, jealousy, impatience,
dishonesty, etc. AND I LOVE MYSELF, so too the Jew X also has these bad
characteristic traits and I must LOVE HIM/HER! This shows us first: that we
need to accept the fact we are not perfect and force ourselves to be modest and
two: we always need to find the good in the other person.
If X gets you angry in these next couple of days, just try
to think this through and let it pass. The Gemara in Megillah explains that one
of the reasons one of the Tana’im (Sages) had the zechut (privelige) of long
life was because he used to let things pass.
B’H we should realize that Mashiah is basically here and its
just a matter of all of our individual levels of pushing to the positive
direction in order to spiritually reveal the Mashiah.
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