Divisions of Saintliness | Part Three

In this lecture Divisions of Saintliness | Part Three from chapter nineteen of The Path of the Just, we discuss the practice of lovingkindness. Lovingkindness is of central importance to the Saintly, for “Saintliness” itself derives from “lovingkindness.” And our Sages of blessed memory have said (Avoth 1.2), “The world stands on three things,” one of which is lovingkindness. They have numbered it (Peah 1.1) among those things whose fruits a man eats in this world and whose essence endures for his reward in the World to Come. And they have said (Sotah 14a), “R. Simlai learned, “The Torah begins and ends with lovingkindness.”