What Brings Our Comrade Pain
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Rabbi Moshe Leib of Sassov declared to his disciples: "I learned how we might truly love our neighbor from a conversation between two villagers which I overheard:
"The first said: 'Tell me, friend Ivan, do you love me?'
"The second: 'I love you deeply.'
"The first: Do you know, my friend, what gives me pain?'
"The second: 'How can I, pray, know what give you pain?'
"The first: 'If you do not know what gives me pain, how can you say that you love me?'
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"Understand, then, my sons," continued the Sassover: "to love, truly to love, means to know what brings pain to your comrade."
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Source: Esser Tzachtzachoth
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