Mussar Series | Everyday Holiness | Rachamim: Compassion

Compassion Isn't a Feeling. It Has to Go Somewhere.

Most of us think we’re pretty compassionate people. We feel bad when someone is hurting. We care. We mean well. And then we move on with our day, because the feeling was real but it didn’t actually produce anything.

The Mussar tradition has some thoughts about that.

Rachamim, the Hebrew word for compassion, is defined by Morinis this way: a deep emotional…