Kedoshim: It didn’t have to end this way | Rabbi Ariel Mizrahi

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Okay, good morning, everyone. It's Rabbi Zukerman, thank you for joining us on this beautiful Thursday morning as we are studying together Parashat Kedoshim. Today's class is actually a sequel to yesterday's class. Yesterday, we gave a class titled straight to hate. Where we spoke about this beautiful commandment in the Torah of Ahava L'Rei'acha Kamocha. And I just want to quickly summarize yesterday's class in order to be able to appreciate today's sequel, part two. Yesterday, we spoke about the mitzvah of Yesterday, we spoke about the mitzvah of love your fellow as yourself. V'ahavta L'Rei'acha Kamocha. And we noticed that the Torah doesn't just say Ahava L'Rei'acha Kamocha. It doesn't say love. It says V'ahavta. It says and love. And that letter vav, which means and is indicating to us that this mitzvah is not meant to be just a standalone by itself. This beautiful commandment is and love your fellow as yourself. That means that it's connected to what's written before it. And the Torah is written before it. And the Torah is telling us that to love someone and obviously, it's not hard to love someone that we don't have any issue with. The challenge is how do I love the guy that annoyed me? That hurt me. That stole from me. That I'm upset at because they did something. That's the challenge. And the Torah is giving us actually a recipe. A recipe for love. And the recipe doesn't end It doesn't start with love.

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1. 0:00Okay, good morning, everyone. It's Rabbi Zukerman, thank you for joining us on this beautiful Thursday…
2. 2:35is that when we have feelings hurt feelings maybe negative feelings, hatred Torah is saying don't…
3. 5:08I'm the bigger person. But if you're holding that in your heart Torah says that's not…
4. 8:11that's a nice guess. But maybe go even earlier. You know, we're talking about brothers here.…
5. 10:48did he do? You're upset at him? That he's so successful? But look how much effort…
6. 13:56But um this is the story of Cain and Abel and it starts off with hatred.…
7. 16:31you know, could we talk? Hocheach tochiach et amitecha. Pour out your heart to him, show…
8. 19:05getting revenge. But isn't that what you did? And Vayakom Cain doesn't only mean he got…
9. 22:10Parashat could have ended up, my friends, very differently. They could have been uh a conversation…
10. 24:43hold on to it. Don't hold on to it. It's as if the guy is Right,…

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