Chessed for Everyone - Rabbi Yehuda Turetsky

the mishnah tells us that faster is one of the things upon which the world stands yet interestingly enough said undoubtedly we know what it means on some level to go and to share acts of loving kindness to provide for others is a very very beautiful comment of the fiduciary which in many ways highlights or crystallizes a particular element of what itself is really all about he points out that the in the list in parshasmini of all the non-kosher birds so one of the non-kosher birds is the khasidah rashi writes in his paper saw a torah according qazal why is it called a hasidah this bird because it provides it performs active with it with its friends wonder many of the achron in the rim amongst them why exactly would this bird be not kosher a bird which is called khasidah a bird which provides and which shares with all of its friends why would that bird not be kosher i would think it would certainly be a kosher bird it's defined by its name highlights the extent to which is the bird whose existence is predicated on sensitivity and compassion why wouldn't it be kosher so this lucha rim but it doesn't expand or move beyond its real initial group in that sense even though it does an element of facet it performs it is not the kind of torah values the torah is not value one that only takes care of its own the torah values those who are able to move beyond their those that they are most comfortable with to move beyond those that are exactly like them and to provide to be able to perform acts of loving kindness for others also very famously elaborates on this this introduction to say for shari yoshi of defining who are those people that we feel more of a connection with with that we feel more of an allegiance towards who were those people they were able to build something with in that sense is not just an act of kindness of providing for others but part of the question is who are the recipients of your kindness if you only take care of those that are exactly like you so then that undermines elements of the extent which we're really being sensitive it's really taking care of others if in contrast we're able to share in a very beautiful way to move beyond our comfort zone to take care of others so then in many ways that highlights what real hassan what real facet is it's true undoubtedly that tested is geared towards providing for others it is certainly the case but as destler points out very famously in his country that a lot of what hasta does also and this idea was we haven't shown him also it does something for us where destler points out the people i give to or the people i end up forming more of a connection with in that sense the more that you give beyond it isn't just when i feel a connection to lots of other people that i want to give them something but sometimes as says as a destler when you give to someone you provide acts of facet that strengthens the bond that we're able to feel with others in that sense our social dwarve olympics we connect to others asset is the way in which we can develop and highlight our sensitivity to all those when whatever they may happen to need and sometimes as a desolator if we don't feel a connection so that act of of assets providing to someone else that we can begin to feel in a more real way the extent to which we are connected to lots of other people to build a certain connection certain relationships with all those around us