VLK - 11 - Ahavas Yisrael on Fire - Emotional Balancing acts

[Music] one of the hardest things the Tyra asks of us is to both love each and every yid in clol no matter what and at the same time tell ourselves that sometimes a yid is not acting appropriately and we don't approve of his actions the tah requires of us to simultaneously tell ourselves that what that person is doing is wrong and yet we still love them and they have a Nisha that is sparkling and precious in the eyes of Hashem and although it's hard to have such dual emotions we the Jewish people consider ourselves to be experts at balancing mentalities we know how to split intellectual hairs for we've been doing it for literally thousands of years on the one hand we are on the other hand we are on the one hand we have on the other hand we havea on the one hand we have on the other hand we have we go from being somebody at a sh house to dancing with someone at a wedding in the same night we sit and cry on Tish we jump and dance on tuba of we stand with fear on yum Kipper and we sing with joy on we say and we sing with Glee on por night we go from the happiness of rash straight to the sadness of Galia we go from the sadness of s straight to the happiness we know how to have a in and yet we cry for theik under our own we light the Mona with joy in the Warsaw Ghetto and we yet we take each happy summer of ours and we spend three weeks mourning the B we know how to go from Fear to Glee to sorrow to Joy from singing to crying to dancing to mourning the Jewish people are the most intellectually and emotionally nuanced people on the face of the Earth and therefore when the T requires us to rebuke and admonish yiden that aren't acting according to toyra values that is in no way a contradiction to loving them and putting ourselves in their shoes and seeing their holy spark that no amount of mud can make dirty the tah demands that we draw a line in the sand and say what that person is doing is wrong and yet the tah demands of us in sh if you come across a man whom you are allowed to hate whose behavior is deemed inappropriate according to Hashem according to the tah you are nevertheless commanded to help him with his donkey we are commanded to lovingly help people even those that aren't acting in line with the T we learn this dichotomy from our and and and and who rebuke us but love us who chastise us but cry for us and Davin for us and hope for us it's Pur precisely because of our ability to perform tremendous emotional balancing acts does kazal require us to DAV both we do for the downfall of sin for the downfall of the forces that suck out godliness from the world and yet we also DAV which according to the Ezra is a direct reference to the 10 who did not act according to the Torah Whose actions were in contradiction to the holy mess that we have Whose actions were so egregious that hasem did the unthinkable and removed 10 entire shim from Kel and we haven't seen them since and yet despite their issues and despite their sins CLA Isel for thousands of years day in and day out year in and year out davins for them and hopes for them and yearns for them the same way we yearn for all the Jews on Earth to come back to see the beauty of Rus to allow their holy n shamas to shine its light once again true the T asks of us to do some emotionally difficult things to Love The Sinner and yet hate the sin to say what that person is doing is wrong and yet to still love that person with all our heart true it's hard true the rest of the world thinks it's an emotional impossibility but we don't back down and we don't give in because our love of Hashem is too great to ignore those not following his ways and yet our love of Hashem is so so great that will forever love his children each and every one of them true that's a difficult emotional task but if there's anyone on Earth that can pull it off it's us