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Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz: “The more one is aware of the other’s flaws.”

Compassion is a complex emotion that encompasses judgment and the recognition of imperfection.

However, that awareness does not generate hatred or abhorrence.

Rather, it creates even more closeness.

The more one is aware of the other’s flaws, the more one has compassion for him.

—Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz