[Avodah] Concerning ourselves with the world at large

[Moshe Y. Gluck]

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> >>>I only have one Makor for this idea, that we, as Jews, should concern
> ourselves with the well-being of the world at large.>>>
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Continuing this thread from 2007, I have another mekor for this concept:

See Rabbeinu Yonah on Pirkei Avos 3:2 (in the Babli numbering): "This means
that a person should daven for the peace of the entire world and to be
pained about other people's suffering. And this is the way of the
righteous... ...that a person shouldn't pray for his own needs alone,
rather to daven for all people, that they should have peace. And when there
is peace in the government, there's peace in the world."

EDIT: I went back to R' MB's compilation of the sources mentioned in the
thread (here: http://www.aishdas.org/asp/universalism) and I found that R'
Doron Beckerman had already included this exact quote. I'm sending it
anyway, because it's a great passage, and because it was in yesterday's
Pirkei Avos.

KT,
MYG
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