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Torah Portions
The Weekly Torah Portion of Chukat
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Aish.com
Ultimate Love
Regarding the Cohen who administers the
purification process with the ashes of the Red Heifer, the Torah writes:
"And the priest is impure until the evening"
Rabbi Mendel of Vorki comments that the ultimate
in love for one's fellow man is when someone loses out himself in order to
help someone else. The test of your level of love for your fellow man is the
amount of sacrifices you are willing to make.
The Rebbe
in His Laboratory
Courtesy of:
Meaning Full Life Center
The previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef
Yitzchak Schneersohn, once referred to a person in a letter as a "G-d
fearing man."
When asked why he bestowed such a title upon a
person who is known as an irreligious man, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak replied:
"When a
pathologist is given a blood sample or a particle of body tissue to analyze
in his laboratory, he peers at it through his microscope and subjects it to
a series of chemical tests and procedures. If he finds so much as the
slightest trace of a certain element, or a single cell of a certain
organism, he notes this in his report. For though the quantity he discerns
might be minuscule and hardly worthy of regard, it points to the existence,
or the potential for the existence, of much greater quantities in the
person."
"I am a
spiritual pathologist," concluded the Rebbe.
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