The Importance of Loving Ones Fellow Jew

They brought what Moshe commanded before the Tabernacle of Meeting, and all the congregation drew near and stood before G-d (9:5) According to the Kabbalist Rabbi Yitzchak Luria, the commandment to love one's fellow Jew must be accepted before beginning to pray. Only when "the congregation drew near" to each other in love and unity, did the Jewish people "stand before G-d" in prayer and supplication.(Chesed L'Avraham)

Reprinted from this week’s email of R’ Yedidye Hirtenfeld’s whY I Matter parsha sheet for the Young Israel of Midwood in Brooklyn.