Kindness

Session 123: “For God’s Name, with Love: The Purpose of Tests”

Sarah Lipman "Fog God's Name, with Love: The Purpose of Tests"

The purpose of a Nisayon (a test; literally, a means for elevation) is to bring a person’s powers from their potential into activation. In Torah, a test is always and only for the benefit of the one being tested. (Based on Ramban, Commentary on Bereishis 22:2)

Session 121: VeZocher Chasdei Avos - Part III - What is Chessed?

Sarah Lipman What is Chessed

"What אהבה is in feelings, חסד is in deeds — love translated into action." —Rav S.R. Hirsch, Commentary on Bereshis 24:27. 

“חסד is both the highest degree of doing good which human beings can accomplish, and the highest expression for the love that God shows to human beings." — Rav S.R. Hirsch, Commentary on Shemos 34:7