Making Space for the People Around You

In honor of Rosh Chodesh Av, Peshy Raitport joins us to explore a beautiful maamar of the Rebbe Rashab on the theme of ahavas Yisrael. What makes it so difficult for us to get along with other people and why is it that certain people trigger us more than others? This maamar challenges us to take an honest look at ourselves and recognize that at core of all jealousy and divisiveness is our own ego. When our own self-consciousness takes up all our emotional space, it leave little room for other people and for G-d to enter our lives. Peshy summarizes the core ideas of the maamar, reads one particularly relatable chapter inside and discusses some of its practical takeaways. She brings it all home by tying the ideas of the maamar into the period of mourning for the Beis Hamikdash that we are about to enter and how rectifying the sinas chinam that brought about its destruction is the key to bringing geulah.

Link to the Hebrew text of the maamar with linear English translation:

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/83594/jewish/Lessons-in-Heichaltzu.htm

Link to purchase our Heichaltzu textbook to use as an aid to studying the original Hebrew text:

https://www.batshevalearningcenter.com/textbooks