The Mitzvah of Veahavta LeRe’echa Kamocha/ love your friend like you love yourself is not just about looking at your friend and loving him. It’s that too, but there are more details to this Mitzvah. We should love him like we love ourselves, and whatever we wouldn’t want done to us, we don’t want done to him. There are practical details. The Sefer Charedim ( perek ט ) gives examples of this: Firstly, you have to praise your friend. When you say about somebody, “ He’s a good guy….He is a hard worker…He takes care of his family….He is a good community member, ” or any other form of praise about him, you are fulfilling the Mitzvah of Veahavta LeRe’echa Kamocha. Wouldn’t you want your friend to praise you? Of course, you should have in the back of your mind that you are fulfilling a mitzvah, and that should drive you, especially if you are not yet at the level yet that you literally feel “ kamocha- like it’s you yourself.” Praising someone is a great opportunity for this. Number two- Care about his money . If you hear about some new government program, or you hear about a certain business opportunity, tell your friend about it. Number three - You should consider your friend’s honor the way you want to be honored. Look out for his benefit. Let use a simple example, in order to make this real: As you’re walking down the street you notice your friend’s car, and the headlights are on. Of course, it’s possible that he just left the car, and the headlights will shut off in a moment or two on their own. But what if he forgot his headlights were on, and they’re going to stay on the whole night and drain his battery? Either you can keep walking, or you can wait a moment or two. If you wait a few minutes and see that his headlights are still on, you can go knock on his door and take care of it, because you care about him. There are myriads of examples of things that go on, where you want to help somebody Number four- Be happy when something good happens to him, and feel bad when something bad happens. This is an unbelievable opportunity. Every time you get an invite via text, instead of sighing and thinking, “ Oh no! Another engagement party! Another bris… another Pidyon Haben,” you can think, “ Wow! How nice! I’m so excited! I’m thrilled for this person!” Just feel simcha for the person! And if has v’shalom, you hear that someone needs tehilim , feel bad. When you think about that person, and do it right, you just got another Mitzvah: Veahavta LeRe’echa Kamocha. Even better is to go to their wedding! Go and stay a long time. If nobody came to your wedding, you wouldn’t be happy. We have to constantly do, and think Veahavta LeRe’echa Kamocha It has to become a mantra, a motto. We have to live by it. Tomorrow we will continue with more examples.