<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>>>>I only have one Makor for this idea, that we, as Jews, should concern<br>
ourselves with the well-being of the world at large.>>><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Continuing this thread from 2007, I have another mekor for this concept:</div><div><br></div><div>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." </div><div><br></div><div>EDIT: I went back to R' MB's compilation of the sources mentioned in the thread (here: <a href="http://www.aishdas.org/asp/universalism">http://www.aishdas.org/asp/universalism</a>) 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.</div><div><br></div><div>KT,</div><div>MYG</div></div></div>