Metzora/Shabbos Hagadol - The Subtle Art of Loving the Sinner and Hating the Sin

[Music] I'd like to share with you a perspective that I believe will make it significantly easier to maintain the Dual mentality of loving the sinner while hating the sin ainu was approached by Hashem and was told to look up at the sky and Hashem told him you see those Stars over there your children are one day going to be like those stars now you ever wonder what meant by that what they were going to be as vast as uncountable as the stars in the sky because it hasn't really ever panned out the Jewish people for the duration of our history have remained between 12 and 17 million people and if you compare that to the 2.83 billion Christians and the 1.8 billion Muslims and the 943 million Hindus and the 488 million Buddhists that number is strikingly small so what exactly did Hashem mean by that so ramal explains that when Hashem was telling aam that your children will one day be like the stars he didn't mean that your children will be as vast and uncountable as the stars in the sky but rather the same way you look up a single star and it seems so small and ins insignificant and yet in reality is massive there are stars that are more than 1,000 times the size of the Sun so to put that into perspective the Earth is 7,918 miles in its radius the sun is 430,000 MI in its radius there are stars that are a thousand times as big as the sun which means there are stars that are 430 million miles in its radius and are hugely consequential to the health of the cosmos and the gravitational pull and the ozone layer and yet appear to the human eye as a mere flicker in the night sky so to Hashem tells abam your children might think of themselves at times as irrelevant and insignificant and redundant and inconsequential just a random Jew riding the subway of life and yet in reality have 430 million miles of Holiness inside of them they have a tkid that no one in the entire world but them can accomplish they are immensely consequential to the spiritual health of the entire universe when the mishna in saned perala Mish says that when you save a Jewish life it says if you save the entire world it's not trying to be cute it's not being hyperbolic it's being literal you save a Jewish person's life I don't care who that Jew is I don't care what he eats on pesak I don't care where he sends his kids to school I don't care where she went to Seminary it's as if you save the entire spiritual world because you did because that person has a topkin that nobody else in the entire world can accomplish and you preserve their spiritual contribution which holds up the world in a literal sense when we view another Jew we have to view them more than merely a distant relative of our big Jewish Family they are someone handpicked by God to fulfill a spiritual Mission and we cherish them in their soul because we need them in their soul and we therefore feel so bitter and uncomfortable when that person is abandoning their tkit or allowing their Holy Soul which the entire world relies on to Simply rot away we love them for they are spiritually supercharged and yet we sometimes feel sad and let down when they aren't living up to the spiritual Mission we need them to when we start the entire maget at the Seder with the calling out of and we invite all in from the streets to partake in the Cedar we aren't merely being nice we aren't merely making sure nobody goes hungry we need to be doing that every week in fact we really need to be doing that every day what's special about L seder the answer is that you better believe that I'm pesak night the night where the Jewish people are spiritually born a new the night where we commemorate the very first time in Jewish history people the Jewish people were given a special Mission the time we were taken out of M and each and every one of us was given a TK you better believe on that night we are going to make sure every person in chol is there you better believe on the night we are celebrating us getting our tkid we won't let any Soul pass by because each soul is too precious each tkin is too consequential it's the exact same reason that according to theuma that SAS is received on the body forar and on one's house if they didn't lend out their stuff now you ever thought about that for a second why would sasco go specifically on those two things why because Hashem gives Saras why doesn't hasem just give Saras to someone that has GAA or anger or someone that lies or someone that's lazy or someone that's a thief why specifically lanara and not lending out your stuff the answer is because those two things more than most demonstrate that you don't view another yid as a star as a spiritual entity an indispensable soul that the entire world relies on and that you would jump in front of a train for you view him as a competitor in The Game of Life a random schnook who I have nothing to do with on such an Outlook Hashem says get out of my M when we were at the yamu about to be attacked by the msum and the Sea finally split we didn't just run into the water with our hair on fire we made 12 very neat rows we oriented ourselves and walked out with our particular shave it why would we waste precious min through the chaos and one of the most dramatic moments in world history finding our shavit to go out with just jump in the water and run the answer is we knew that the job of shavit Ruin isn't the job isn't the same as the job of shavit naali and Yehuda isn't the same as Usher and Benyamin isn't the same as shim and you better believe it the very Genesis of the Jewish people the day we were getting our mission you better believe we were going to leave with our specific taskid a taskid that literally holds up the world when we have this perspective it becomes significantly easier to look at someone who might be doing the wrong thing and feel bad that the Holiness inside of them is being sullied and perhaps their tet isn't being performed but to still love them for being the one chosen to carry it out when we have the perspective that each and every member in CL Israel is a soldier and hashem's army tasked with a mission only he can carry out he is a that the entire universe relies on every MOA every shess Checker every mikal lady every AA Checker every Suka Builder every matah Baker every pre PES car cleaner every every Gabi every schaer blower every ARA salesman every irreligious college kid every off the teenager every Rabbi every congregant every Badin every fundraiser every rich man every poor man Jews that you love Jews that you hate Jews that you can't stand those that you agree with those that you don't agree with every man woman and child every single one of us form the rainbow that is the Jewish people every single one of us has its place on this starry night that aam saw so many years ago when we have that perspective we can do great emotional balancing acts we can love The Sinner and hate the sin we can look at any single person in CL and think to ourselves and really believe it the entire spiritual world needs you there is no such thing as a redundant Jew there was no such thing as an unnecessary Jew for there were 600,000 people who left MIT there are 600,000 letters in the Torah is that a coincidence of course it's not [Music]