It would seem to us self-understood that the: רַךְ הַלֵּבָב (soft-hearted) should stay away from battlefield because of his soft heart. So why does the Torah specify: וְלֹא יִמַס אֶת לְבַב אֶחָיו כִלְבָבו “because he melts the hearts of others like his own”? Here we see the great magnitude of our influence on others. Similarly, only by a: מֵּ סִ ית (one who persuades others to do Avoda Zara) does the Torah say: לֹא תָחוס עֵּינְךָ עָלָיו וְלֹא תַחְמֹל וְלֹא תְכַסֶה עָלָיו not to have Rachmanus in him, again and again. Even the worst Rotze'ach (murderer) and Oved Avoda Zara doesn’t get a: לֹא תַחְמֹל (“have no pity on him”), only a: מֵּ סִ ית, because the Tachlis of a person is to be Mashpia (have positive influence) on others. If one knows only Alef-Bais, one should already try to teach it to others. Just like being Mashpia (influencing) in a negative way is the worst of the worst, so is being M'zakeh the Rabim (positive influence) the most unusual thing a person can dream of. (Alter of Kelm Zatzal).
People underestimate the importance of Zikkui HaRabbim and how the Neshama thirsts for more and more Zikkui HaRabbim. Who knows how many sad issues in life exist because one’s mind isn’t sufficiently involved in how one can be M'zakeh the Rabim. Who knows how many Neshamos of non-religious Jews are crying in Shamayim to be saved from their (spiritual) misery, which is worse than the (physical destruction of the) Nazi Holocaust?
