You never said it yet? Not once in your whole lifetime? You might have to come back again to this world and do it over again, in a gilgul maybe. You didn't live correctly. You didn’t even start.
Say it now. You should be yotzei at least once. Don't be ashamed; Hashem agrees with you. Say it now quietly, “I love my people.”
Even if you never do it again, it’s something. After a hundred and twenty years when your time is up and you’ll come to the Next World, they’re going to ask you, “Did you ever say those words in your life, ‘I love my people’?”
“I think I said it once in Flatbush. I was in Rabbi Miller’s shul and I said it. Once.”
“Ooh ah!” the malach will say. “He did it! This man did it!’
So even one time is something! But don’t stop now. You’re on your way! So now you keep going. Let’s say you’re standing at the bus stop or you’re walking to the shul. Ah! An opportunity to fulfill this mitzvah of קְדֹשִים תִּהְיוּ, to love our fellow Jews just like He does. “Hashem, I know that You love the Am Yisroel and so I’m going to do it too. I’m going to say it at least. I love Your people, Hashem.”
