HELPING
Having pleasure in helping another is the greatest geatest greatest quality/gift.
GREATER THAN LOVING GOD
Greater to love your fellow Jew, than to love God.
IT’S EVOLUTION
Until the Baal Shem Tov, Jews revered Torah scholars, the Baal Shem Tov brought about that all Jews should be loved, the Alter Rebbe brought about, that all Jews should be revered.
FROM THE REBBE
SOUL JEOPARDY
Lacking true love we lose our soul.
SACRIFICING
By sacrificing oneself for another we reach our essential soul.
LOVE EVEN “EVIL”
Love for one’s fellow is to the most debased miserable person (as it stems from their Godly core – which though their instincts (usually caused by anxiety / insecurity) has caused an outer evil – their essence and yours are both Divine.)
“ALL YOUR MIGHT”
Love for one’s fellow, must be with the full “power and strength” of one’s core (soul/self.)
LOVE = TORAH
The way we fulfill the Torah is through doing Ahavas Yisroel (loving).)
TORAH + LOVE
In order for the Jews to receive the Torah, they had to first love (each other unconditionally.)
TRUE LOVE
TRUE LOVE MEANS BRINGING YOUR FELLOW TO THE RECOGNITION OF HIS DIVINE MANDATE.
ESSENTIAL LOVE
The love of G-d of Torah and our Fellow Jew is actually one and the same.
LOVE = CHASSIDIM
Loving your fellow is the foundation of Chassidism.
MEDITATION TO LOVE
Through meditating (how we’re all really essentially one) we achieve a love which transcends self-interest.
LOVE FOR A FELLOW REVEALS OUR SOUL WHICH IS THEN PRIMED TO RECEIVE GOD.
The reason the Torah uses the language – love your fellow Jew as you love yourself – for “as” means not how much, but the type of love – for we love ourselves intrinsically (not for what we’ve done but our very existence.)
TRUE LOVE
Our love for our fellow includes one we never before met.
LOVE = TORAH
Love is the whole Torah.
HOW TO LOVe
The only possibility to love (for by nature our ego feels threatened) is when we go out of ourselves – this occurs by connecting to the generation’s Moses.
OUR CORE = LOVE
When our quintessential true self is revealed, so is our love.
LOVE = MOSHIACH
When there is love (for our fellow) there will be love for God and Torah and it will bring Moshiach.
LOVE = TORAH
The more one loves their fellow, the greater their Torah.
LOVE = MOSHIACH
As the Temple’s destruction was caused by baseless hate (jealousy) it will be caused by baseless love (just love.)
DICHOTIMIZING
Zealousness (“very religious”) is how one must treat oneself – but compassion is how one must treat another.
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE!
One’s love to help another is even if spiritually it causes for you a loss.
REAL LOVE
Imagine having a prized car – and because you love someone, you happily give it to them – such must be our love (to everyone.)
AHAVAS YISROEL
Ahavas Yisroel is the foundation of the way of the Baal Shem Tov, and it was materialized and actualized through the Alter Rebbe.
LOVE = MOSHIACH
Loving your fellow brings Moshiach!
SEE GOOD
One must make an effort to see only another’s positive and become their friend (nothing is as delitroius to a relationship than viewing the other negatively.)
INFINITE GIVING
Our love for another must be even for the smallest (accoutrements – much as we have for ourselves.)
BUT LOVE
One’s love should be so strong, that even those who harm you, you help (them.)
THE GREATEST GOAL
There is nothing greater than friendship and finding another’s positive.
DO NO HARM
One must be extraordinarily certain to never cause pain/shame.
BEST
The most precious thing in the world – love.
EVEN YOUR LIFE
Another’s pain, be it physical or spiritual, should bother you, to the extent you literally be ready to give for him or her your life.
TO EVERYONE
Giving includes to even the lowest.
THE LOVE OF THE RASHBI