וגר לא תונה ולא תלחצנו כי גרים הייתם בארץ מצרים
Sensitivity to the helpless and abandoned is a given, a concept that we should all understand. Unfortunately, a tendency exists among insecure people, who contend with a negative image of themselves, to take advantage of those who are weak. Nonetheless, for the most part, the average person does not walk around with poor self-esteem. Why does the Torah underscore that we should not take advantage of the stranger, because we, too, were once strangers? The simple understanding is that we should know how it feels to be excluded, to be different. When we have personally experienced behavior which is uncomfortable…
