This is what I am asking regarding that clerk…” In fact, he became so agitated in the course of his retelling that he blurted out: “In the past, when a person stood in the way of benefitting the Jewish People, our leaders would intervene ‘on High’ to make sure they could interfere no longer. One Sunday afternoon, while receiving a dollar from the Rebbe for charity, he briefly described the situation. In fact, they were regularly being flagged and disqualified by a Jewish state clerk who deliberately sought petty flaws in every application. After looking into matters, he discovered that his applications had not even reached the federal offices. However, at some point he began noticing a marked drop in his success rate. Over the years he received much satisfaction from seeing numerous schools and institutions awarded necessary funding on account of his efforts. Specifically, he used his experience with the local bureaucracy to assist Jewish institutions by preparing the necessary applications for state and federal funding. Remember the Ten PercentĪ certain vice president of a prominent college was known for generously volunteering his time on behalf of Jewish education, which was one of the Rebbe’s deepest concerns. In this way, he took his place in the illustrious line of great Jewish leaders who sought to uplift and unify the people. In addition to “judging others favorably,” as the Mishnah demands, 2 limud zechut literally means, the “study of another’s merit,” which implies a conscious, concerted, and creative effort to discover the often-hidden merits in others and bring them to the fore.Īs we will see from the examples below, a hallmark of the Rebbe’s Positivity Bias was his stubborn insistence on always seeing and highlighting the good in others. This is referred to as limud zechut, finding merit in others.
Toward this end, the Rebbe set out to accomplish nothing less than a full-scale revolution of Jewish values by utilizing the foundations of the Chasidic movement, which sought to illuminate and activate the inner soul of the Jewish people.Ī deep belief in the indomitable presence of a redemptive spark within each individual led the Rebbe to constantly strive to acknowledge and amplify whatever point of goodness a person might possess. Yosef Yitzchak saw the need for, and the Rebbe set into motion, a radical new approach to uplift and activate the Jewish People, emphasizing joy over judgment, compassion over condemnation, and empowerment over exclusion.
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It was only after the Rebbe accepted the mantle of Chabad leadership that they fully understood the full scope and significance of that simple statement.įrom his first public address, it became clear that the Rebbe sought to make ahavat Yisrael-the unconditional love and acceptance of one’s fellow-the cornerstone of his unceasing effort to heal and revitalize the Jewish People in the aftermath of the horrors of the Holocaust. Yosef Yitzchak, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, he gathered together some of his oldest and most trusted Chasidim and said to them: “We’re looking for someone who will seek out the merits of the Jewish People and advocate on their behalf.” 1
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