RABBI LAZER BRODY BONUS ON PARSHAS BEHAR

(PLEASE LEARN THIS POST FOR A YESHUA FOR Yoel Zev ben Mirel Rissa Chava AND Yaakov Yoseph ben Raizel THE BOYS IN JAPAN)

Rebbe Natan of Breslev writes (Likutei Halachot, Hilchot Gittin 3:9) that there is no more effective way of mitigating stern judgments – dinim – than Ahavat Yisroel, the unconditional altruistic love that Jews should have for each other, where each Jew loves his fellow like his own soul.
Unfortunately, the opposite holds true as well: nothing arouses stern judgments like sin’at chinam – Jewish intramural hatred. The Talmud says some alarming things about the high price of intramural hatred. “Because of sin’at chinam, women miscarry, marital peace is destroyed, and one’s sons and daughters die at a young age (Tractate Calla, first chapter). The Gemara (tractate Yoma 9b) cites sin’at chinam as the root cause of the destruction of our Second Holy Temple despite the fact that the people of that generation were both observant and Torah scholars.