🔥Daily Chassidus:[1] Why toddlers don’t show compassion and mercy

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🔥Daily Chassidus:[1] Why toddlers don’t show compassion and mercy

The attribute of mercy and compassion comes from the aspect of Daas of one’s intellect. What is the connection between Daas and compassion? So this can be readily seen within the nature of a child. The reason why small children, babies and toddlers, contain a disposition towards cruelty is because they do not contain the aspect of Daas. It is likewise for this reason that we associate the attribute of mercy to a father, as it says in the verse “like a father who has mercy on his children.” Why is a mother not mentioned in the verse? The reason for this is because women are lightheaded, which means they have a lesser measurement of Daas. This is in contrast to a man who has a much broader level of Daas, and hence he can have more compassion.

[1] Likkutei Torah Bamidbar

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Rabbi Yaakov Goldstein is a 6th generation descendent of the famous Chief Rabbi of Izhmir, Rav Yehoshua Avraham Krispin, who authored a number of Sefarim, and was a colleague of Rav Chaim Falagi, and father in-law of the Pesach Hadvir. He currently lives with his wife Shayna, and twelve children K”H, in Tzfas, Israel. Rabbi Goldstein received Semicha from Rabbi Schneur Zalman Labkowski of the Tomchei Temimim headquarters in 2005 and served as a chaplain in the Lotar/Kalatz and K9 unit of the IDF from years 2005-2008. He is also a certified Shochet, and has performed Hashgacha work in slaughterhouses. Rabbi Goldstein is the director of Shulchanaruchharav.com, the world’s leading web-based Halacha database, and is the director of the Home Study Semicha Program, a self-study web-based Semicha program. He is a prolific author of over 50 Sefarim studied by a wide range of readers throughout the world, which is used regularly in Semicha programs around the globe. He is a world renowned Posek, answering questions to a web-based market, and serves as a local Posek, Rav, and Lecturer, in the Tzemach Tzedek community Shul in Tzefas, Israel. His many classes can be heard both from his website, Vimeo and YouTube channel. Students can join live to classes given in the Tzemach Tzedek Shul, through the “בית חבד צפת Chabad Tsfat” YouTube channel.