“…And you shall love the Ger, for you were slaves in Egypt” We understand this to mean that it’s easy to love your neighbor, for he is so much like you. But a Ger is an outsider, someone different. What is the path to loving him?
The Torah lends us a hand, focusing us on the fact that we share a bond with the Ger, we have a nomad’s kinship with him, for we too were once strangers. That’s our common ground.
This is the method to viewing another as a brother and friend; find and focus on similarities, the things we share and have in common.
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