The true Tzaddik attains the supreme wisdom of the Torah, through which
all conflicts and contradictions can be resolved and sweetened. In a pointed
hint to his Chassidim, Rebbe Nachman
quoted the saying of Rabbi Shimon bar
Yochai: “For us, everything depends
upon ‘chavivuta’, mutual love” (Zohar Bemidbar 128). Love between
chassid and chassid and between Jew and Jew would be the remedy for conflict
within the Jewish People and in the world as a whole, bringing unity and joy
––– all through faith in the Tzaddik.
“Know that you must judge all
people favorably. Even in the case of a complete sinner, you must search until
you find some modicum of good by virtue of which he is not a sinner. By finding
this small amount of good and judging him favorably, you really do elevate him
to the scale of merit, and you can then bring him back to God.” ‘Azamra––I will sing!’
From book “The Wings of the Sun, chapter 8, page
78-79.
http://www.azamra.org/
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