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Mussar - Lovingkindness: Chesed

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Jul 29, 2026
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A whimsical ink and watercolor illustration of two women seated close together, one tearful and the other leaning in with gentle eyes and a comforting hand, rendered in warm candlelight against blush pink and cream tones.

Here’s something worth thinking about: you can be a perfectly nice person and have almost no chesed at all.

Chesed is the Hebrew word usually translated as loving-kindness, but Morinis says that translation undersells it by about a mile. He calls it “generous sustaining benevolence.” Not warmth. Not pleasantness. Sustaining. The kind of care that actuall…

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