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0:15 As I said, I once said another thing: What is called a tzaddik? A true tzaddik is one who has a mind that can look into Gemara with Rashi and Tosafos in great depth, and a minute later he can cry over a chapter of Tehillim. That is a true tzaddik. A true tzaddik is one who loves all the Jews, every one of them. The greatness of the tzaddik: he is one who has such great love for the Jewish people that "Love your fellow as yourself" and "Love Hashem your G-d" are, for him... he sees them as one, as one thing.
0:43 He does not see it as a division, as something where one is only to love Hashem and not to love the Jew. He sees it all as counted as one, he regards it all as one. This, in fact, is the virtue of the tzaddik. The greater and higher the tzaddik, the greater and more immense his love of Israel. And a true tzaddik must be full of love, to love all the creatures in the world. Everyone who has a Jewish soul, one must love him, with a love that depends on nothing, a love to the point of self-sacrifice.
1:13 And if the tzaddik is greater in stature, he can see these souls and even love them before they know him. That is the virtue of the tzaddik. To love the souls even before they come within your four cubits, and even before you know all that has happened in their lives, etc. And that is the virtue of the tzaddik. The greater the virtue of the tzaddik, the more his love for the Jewish people grows. For the more love there is between Jews, through that the geulah will come.
1:39 The tikkun of this generation is to help one another: whether it is giving a gift, or gladdening a Jew, or helping him. To hate a Jew is the most terrible impurity. A person who does not love the Jews and does not honor them, then he is impure with all kinds of impurities, and no mikveh can help. But certainly, for everything there is a remedy. But when a person does not understand the greatness of the souls of Israel, and especially when he speaks about Jews or anything else, there is no flaw more severe than this.
2:09 And whoever wants to delve into it deeply should study Tractate Yoma, page 72, Tractate Taanis, page 7, and Tractate Pesachim, page 50, and learn what Torah for its own sake truly is. There are explanations there, deep study and analysis of what it means to learn in order to provoke and to show off, and what flaw comes from a person learning in order to provoke and to show off: he takes his Torah with all the commentaries, and he wants it in order to provoke and rise over his friend.
2:34 The Jewish people will be redeemed if only there is one unity. To see the virtue in the greatness of the souls of Israel, the virtue of Jews who walk to the synagogue or to the beis midrash, and that a Jew does kindness with his fellow; they should understand and be moved by this, by this kindness, that there are Jews in the world. When you see a Jew, put it deep, deep, deep into your heart: "Master of the World, grant me the merit to love this Jew." Say it like this, so there will be more love of Israel; this is how the geulah will come. When you see a Jew, say: "Master of the World, grant me the merit to love this Jew."
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3:15 so that I will have no foreign thoughts about him, not a single thought, about any Jew. You walk in the street, say: "Master of the World, grant me the merit to love this Jew." Say it like this. You walk on; say again: "Master of the World, grant me the merit to love with a great love." You don't know him, you don't speak with him, he passes in the street opposite you, on the other side, until all the Jews in the world love one another
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