CHAZAQ's Torah Talks #207 Rabbi Arieh Friedner - Jewish Unity: Just Wishful Thinking?

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If the commandment to love other Jews is love other people, love your neighbor, love your friend, love them like you love yourself. The first step of Jewish unity is we are very very very far from understanding how to love ourselves. A lot of people have self-confidence. A lot of people like believe in themselves. But if you don't know how much God loves you, if you haven't contemplated the endless, endless burning love that God has for every single Jew, including you, despite your mistakes, our mistakes, the things that we've done wrong, the mistakes that we've made, the holes in our upbringing and the holes in in our in our connectivity right now, the things about Judaism that we don't do or that we don't even love, right? God, despite all of that, loves every single one of us. [Music] and welcome to Torah Talks Kazak's program with special guests. We have with us all the way from Cleveland, Ohio, Rabbi Hari Frieder Bar. Welcome. >> Thank you so much. Great to be here. >> Of course, it's so so so great. We've been working on this for quite some time. And we're going to be speaking about Jewish unity. But before we get to that exciting topic, if we get a little bit background about the rabbi and the great work you're involved with. >> Sure. My background. >> Yeah. >> Okay. My name is Arya Freried. Uh I grew up in Cherry Hill, >> New Jersey. So on the farm from over here in New York. Uh my my parents were

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