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The Third Axiom: Hashem Wants to Give Everyone else but You cannot have compassion on me, heaven forbid. But
Spiritual Life You are a compassionate Father and Your compassion is infinite,
even for me. And what am I asking for? Am I asking You to help
The Shulchan Aruch (Yoreh Deah 242:1) states, “A person is me sin, to give me the ability and funds to continue sinning? No! I
obligated to honor and fear his rabbi more than his father.” Why? am not asking to sin. I am asking You to help me live in accordance
“Because his father brought him into this world, but his rabbi has with Your will. I am asking for Your true compassion. You certainly
taught him wisdom that will bring him to the life of the world- want and desire to help me and to have compassion on me, even
to-come” (Bava Metzia 33a). Eternal life, which is spiritual life, at this moment!”
incomparably transcends physical life. This is because spiritual life
And the essence of Hashem’s compassion is expressed when He
is the purpose of physical life, and it is the principal reason that gives a person a state of awareness that will keep him from sinning.
Hashem wants to give us life on the physical plane.
As Rabbi Nachman teaches (Likutei Moharan I 7):
Thus, if Hashem wants to save us physically, how much more
does He want to save us spiritually. And if we do not question There is nothing more pitiful than when the holy
our worthiness when we cry out to Hashem to give us physical nation of Israel falls and sins, heaven forbid, may the
well-being, how much more should we not question our worthiness Compassionate One have mercy. That is the most pitiful
when we cry out to Hashem to give us spiritual well-being. kind of state, because all of the grievous afflictions in the
world are considered as nothing at all compared to the
If, regarding our physical lives, we must cry out and entreat heavy burden of sins, heaven forbid. When the people
Hashem to give us life immediately, how much more regarding of Israel fall and sin, heaven forbid, that is a very heavy
our spiritual lives, which constitute the purpose of our existence, weight, an unbearably heavy weight, as in the verse:
must we cry out and entreat Hashem, “Rescue me and save me
completely this very minute!” And if our heartfelt outcry for “Like a heavy weight, they are too heavy for me” (Psalms
physical life is certainly effective, how much more is our heartfelt 38:5). A person who knows the holiness of the people of
outcry for spiritual life effective! As I have explained: What gives Israel, who knows where they come from and who knows
prayer its power and transforms it into a vessel to receive every the spirituality and nobility of the people of Israel knows
sort of salvation? The answer is: a person’s wholeness of faith that the people of Israel are entirely removed from sin,
that Hashem wants to rescue him, due to the fact that Hashem and that sin has no connection to them at all, whatever,
is a King Who desires life. And why does He desire life? Because in the context of their great holiness at their root and
He loves every created being and He has compassion on all who their great nobility and spirituality. And so all of the
turn to Him. And if that is so regarding physical life, how much sufferings in the world are not considered a burden when
more does Hashem want to give us spiritual and eternal life, for compared to the heavy burden of sins, heaven forbid,
whose sake He created us. In the Creator’s true love for every may the Compassionate One have mercy….
created being, He wants everyone to attain true success. And that
is genuine compassion: compassion on every person so that he will The essence of compassion, of having compassion on
be transformed from animal to man, so that he will cling with and Israel, the holy nation, is to bring them out from under
bond to the Creator, and do Hashem’s will completely.
the heavy burden of sins. And so every time that the
people of Israel fell and engaged in some sin, Moses
