#539: Amida: Al Ha'Tzadikim (Part 8)

s is respons by the Saka family and as well by for we are on theim and we have analiz the word we've been discussing specifically designated delineated that we think about righteous converts every day three times a day we DAV for their well-being we DAV for their success this is a fulfillment of the most often repeated Mitzvah in the Torah and that is to love the convert to love the G just as hem loves them we have to love them as we mentioned the says even more than we love the average person the average fellow Jew we have to love Kam as ourselves but there is no criteria or there is no limit to how much we have to love the convert we go even further we go above we mentioned that even those who convert were present at SII their their soul too was destined to convert that's why it's not dumy who was a righteous convert himself a martyr a kados who gave his life for being a Jew he said everyone's familiar with the me that hasem went and offered the Torah to all the nations of the world and they refused for different reasons but they were unwilling to accept to be bound by some of the laws of the Torah but within each of those Nations there were those who were open those who wanted to accept it those from the other nations who wanted to accept it those of the Soul says r who were who were destined to convert and to join the Jewish people why do we think about them why are we D invoking them in our daving I read to you inside we have to love the convert as ourselves we fulfill the Commandment to love the convert when we express that love by ding on their behalf we specifically in our time is writing significant time ago he says we live in such a lowly generation and among the most meaningful inspirational activities the privileges that I have sure panski feels this way when he was in in Tink to be involved in conversion to be involved in aasin to be able to live in a world of so much confusion I don't know today was the world was more unrecognizable even than usual we live in a world I don't want to give a side editorial but I can't help myself the UN held a moment of silence for the Butcher of tan the United States Senate chaplain offered a prayer for the people of Iran the state department sent a message of condolence and an arrest warrant was announced will go out for sinir and Bib and you say we live in a upside down backwards world if it weren't so sad you could laugh it's unrecognizable it's mindboggling mindboggling the world we live and then someone steps up and says I want to be a Jew they see what's happening on college campus they say nevertheless I want to be a Jew rit's writing in his time says such a person in that Darkness who expresses and reveals that light wow they are indeed the they are indeed the disciple ofu who saw hem through the darkness so you have to embrace the convert love the convert admire the convert Revere the convert applaud the convert that the convert in a world of such darkness and confusion such moral chaos has the clarity and the vision and the light to say I want to be part of this Jewish people not only do we embrace them fully we love them and a person says the more they increase their love of the convert they are in fact demonstrating love of hem and his to the convert join because they love God and if you Embrace and love the convert you are expressing a love of God therefore says it's a person asked to put in their heart to Davin intensely for the welfare the good of the convert and that the Jewish people I'll editorialize a little bit in translating that the Jewish people not turn off the convert so much that he runs away and back to where he came from that's also what we think about while we daved that the righteous convert remains a proud Jew and that we the Jewish people are worthy of their joining us that they aren't so turned off by what they find and when they join that they want to turn right around and go back to where they came from and that indeed is something worth doing for that indeed is also equally miraculous I'll end our explanation of this expression with a fund and elsewhere says says that converts are as difficult for the Jewish people like boils like a rash like a skin disease the gar there quotes a you can't help but wonder what just happened we said it's the most important repeated mitzah in the Torah God loves the convert and now we're describing converts they are as aggravating they are as irritating for the Jewish people as a bad rash as a skin disease what does that mean so some say because they introduce questions of Yen becomes complicated to trace lineage and they interfere with the pure passage of lineage that's one of the explanations quotes from taka a the bal's quote that the reason is because you know the converts are so on fire they're so inspired they're really annoying and obnoxious we are checked out we are sort of uh dispassionate many observant Jews who were raised and brought up with observance from their youth so they they're not passionate but the convert comes along and they're all excited oh I love Hashem thank you Hashem can't wait to make a br I can't wait for shabas I can't wait to keep kosher I can't wait for the next daving can't wait for the next Mitzvah andm amazing we say who are you who needs you you're making us look bad making us look bad that's what to quotes K doesn't mean that inherently or intrinsically we're not insulting them and this explanation could be extended not only to converts but to Bal Chua those who are in fire those who are passionate make those who are a little more lukewarm look bad and feel bad and that's why they're irritating but we hope they keep irritating us cuz they Inspire us and so we DAV on their behalf they should continue to irritate they should continue to inspire they should continue to modeled that the righteous converts should set the world straight in a place of darkness and Chaos that they represent the light and the best