Parshas Re'eh: Chassidic Vertlach on the Pesukim

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Why does the pasuk open with re'eh in the singular and go on with lefneichem in the plural? The Kotzker answers that Hashem sets the same facts before everyone, but each person sees only as much as he puts effort into seeing. A simple villager read re'eh anochi as a call to look honestly at oneself. A sefer on the parsha reads ki lo yihyeh b'cha evyon to mean that whoever looks only at what he has, and not at others, is never poor.

Key points

• One reading of lo saasun kein warns against serving Hashem in only one fixed way.
• For the Avnei Nezer, seeing the neshama as primary prevents both excessive mourning and splintering.
• One Rebbe kept giving a once-wealthy man money until the Rebbe's own pain for him was gone.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Re'eh in singular and plural
2. 1:15A simple villager's vort on re'eh
3. 2:13Lo saasun kein la'Hashem
4. 3:38Scratching for the dead and splintering
5. 5:58No poor person among you
6. 7:27Giving without a bad heart
7. 8:39Another reading of giving tzedakah

Topics

• Parshas Re'eh
• Tzedakah
• Avodas Hashem
• Achdus