Jewish Leadership to share humanity

Shalom Aleichem Chevra, so good to have you with us! Are we actually supposed to find something to love even in the worst people who ever lived — and does doing that somehow change them? In this shiur we dive into one of the most famous and profound teachings — the Likutey Moharan of Rebbe Nachman — on the mitzvah of judging every single person favorably. We're not talking about being naive or closing your eyes to real evil. We're talking about a genuine spiritual technology where you locate that one point of good inside even the most broken human being, you focus on it, and something metaphysical shifts — both in you and in them. We explore a stunning idea from the Gemara in Gittin about Nero Caesar, one of the most destructive rulers in history, who did teshuva and whose descendants include none other than Rabbi Meir. That's not a footnote — that's the whole point. We believe in people. A person is never 100% lost. Rebbe Nachman teaches that even someone who is 99% evil has a point of good inside them, and in that place, in that specific point, he is not a rasha. That's where you can judge him favorably. That's where real connection and real influence begin. We also look at t