Our Sages understand this principle not merely as an…
Our Sages understand this principle not merely as an ideal to which to aspire, but as a mitzvas asei, a binding obligation: 161 Just as He is kind and compassionate, so too we must be kind and compassionate.
— from True North (Ethics, Integrity, Truth, Values) · Tomer Devorah: Rabbi Moshe Cordevereo's Classic Guide to Emulating Hashem's Thirteen Attri
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The highest aim is simply this: to become the kind of person whose word and judgment can be trusted — and, in the older language, to resemble the divine, who is kind and compassionate, by being kind and compassionate ourselves, because a person resembles his Maker through his actions. The tradition treats that not as a lovely ideal but as a binding obligation: just as He is compassionate, so must we be. The only open question is the scope of it — whose good are you actually responsible for promoting: your own, your family's, or everyone's? — True North (Ethics, Integrity, Truth, Values)