Reply To: Time to blow some peoples minds here…

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We are Hashems children, I dont know of any pasuk considering non Jews Hashems children, I shouldnt have used the words that they are Hashems children, but they are certainly important to Him and He cares and loves all of His creatures as we see by the Yam Suf when the evil Mitzrim were drowning in the Yam Suf and they deserved everything that happened to them so the Malachim wanted to sing shira and Hashem incredulously asks them “The work of my hands are drowning in the sea and you want to sing shira?!”

My point is just that there are people who would never help a non Jew. They think its beneath them to help a non Jew in need or maybe even a mitzvah to not help him. I dont want to get off on a tangent but there are a number of Jews who firmly believe that its mutar to steal from non Jews. It all comes from the same place of looking down on them and thinking they are so low that one can do what they want to them. Its arrogant stupidity.

There are plenty of stories out there where Gedolim went out of their way to be friendly to their non Jewish neighbors or to employees of the yeshiva… Read Rav Mendel Kaplans biography, halevay we would be on the level to do Chessed to Yidden the way he did for the non Jews that he had to do with.

The stories of Rav Pam and his neighbors…

We have an obligation to be a Mentch as Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach says.

A further point to ponder, if you are willing to do Chessed and be friendly to a non Jew because its being a Mentch and the way a Ben Adam acts, then you will certainly be more inclined towards treating your fellow Jew the right way.