“A Jew was visiting his doctor, and listened to the following report:
‘There is an improvement in your general health. Your legs are swollen, but I am not worrying about that.’
‘Well Doctor,' replied the patient, ‘if your leg were swollen, I wouldn’t worry about it either’.”
- Friday Night Book 1933
If the mitzvah of “loving one’s neighbor as oneself” is real it means the pain someone else suffers ought to be what we feel.
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