The Best Excuse
Now all these things are true calculations, they’re cheshbonos shel emes; but you have to know that the biggest cheshbon, the overriding thought as you continue to concentrate on that person, is that Hashem loves him. That’s the reason for everything! ‘Hashem loves him and therefore I love him too.’
You’re hearing something now that’s very important because there can be a very great error in this program. When people undertake a career of loving their fellow Jews, whether they mean it superficially or seriously, they sometimes make a very great error. Because what is a Jew really? He is nobody. He's a human being. הַיּוֹם כָּאן וּמָחָר בְּקֶבֶר. Here today, gone tomorrow. What's so important about him? He’s 170, 180 pounds of protoplasm. He’s a mountain of protoplasm, that’s all.
Hashem’s Beloved One
The answer is only one reason why he’s so important. Because Hashem is with him. Because Hashem loves him. No question about it. This man, this plain Jew who sits all the way in the back of the shul, if he believes in Torah min haShomayim, if he believes in Hashem Elokei Yisroel then Hashem loves him.
After all, he’s a man who keeps Shabbos. He’s a shomer Torah u’mitzvos. He has a frum family, frum children. He davens every day, he talks to Hakadosh Baruch Hu. He wears arba kanfos, he puts on tefillin, eats kosher. He’s careful not to do what’s an aveirah.
