Past and Future Ahavas Yisrael

A key focus of our soul-reckoning on Pesach Sheni should be the Mitzvah of ahavas yisrael (loving one’s fellow Jew). As above, we should contemplate our past shortcomings in this area, as well as formulating ways in which to increase our ahavas yisrael in practical, day-to-day life.

[The Sefirah period also marks the death of Rabbi Avika's students, who were punished by Heaven for "not conducting themselves respectfully to each other." Thus the current stress on ahavas yisrael] in practical, day-to-day life and in a manner of “they conducted themselves with respect towards one another” - actual conduct and not merely feeling respect within our hearts... (Parshas Behar 5749; Hisvaaduyos p. 157-158)