Spiritual Insanity: When Hurting Another Jew Feels Like Self-Harm

If we’re one soul, one body — then why do we keep hurting ourselves?

In this deeply moving shiur, Rav Shlomo Katz brings us face to face with the spiritual reality of Klal Yisrael as one living organism. Drawing from the Arizal, the Baal HaTanya, and Chassidic thought, we confront the spiritual absurdity — the insanity — of anger, revenge, and resentment toward another Jew.

What emerges is a vision of Am Yisrael where hurting another is no different than stabbing your own hand. If we are truly one soul, how could we ever justify separation, judgment, or division?

In this shiur:

- Why revenge and anger are signs of spiritual disconnection
- What it means that all Jewish souls are one literal spiritual body
- The power of visualizing others not as “other,” but as “me”
- Why even mitzvot between man and G-d don’t "land" properly without Ahavat Yisrael
- How the Arizal would do vidui (confession) on sins others committed — because he felt them as his own

This shiur doesn’t just inspire love — it rewires the way we see another Jew, and ultimately ourselves. Because if hurting you is hurting me… then healing you might just be what heals me, too.