When Kindness Actually Counts

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The opening of this shiur, in Hidabroot - Torah & Judaism’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Hashem put a nuclear reactor in our mouths. Our words can destroy, but they can also resurrect. Most of us are amazing at being nice to the people who like us, the people who validate us, the people who think like us and act like us and dress like us and vote like us and daven like us, the people we already agree with. But that's not the test. The real mitzvah is when it's someone who rubs you the wrong way, someone who annoys you, someone who disagrees with

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1. 0:00Hashem put a nuclear reactor in our mouths. Our words can destroy, but they can also…
2. 0:30you, someone who doesn't validate you at all, someone who doesn't flatter you, doesn't think like…
3. 1:01stranger who looks like he's hanging on by a thread. So let's use this gift, this…

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