The Indignities and Insults We Visit Upon One Another

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Often, it seems that all we do is engage in debasement and insults, both overt and subtle. In order to build ourselves up, we must tear someone else down. We all experience insult, large and small. "Our Rabbis taught: Those who are insulted but do not insult, hear themselves reviled without responding, act through love and rejoice in suffering, regarding them the verse states: 'But they who love Him as the sun goes forth in might' " Why the double language? Aren't these speaking to the very same people? My grandfather Rav Bezalel Ze'ev Shafran ZT'L responds insightfully....

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