The Essence of a Yid

Is the worst thing you ever did really who you are? In Parshas Vaera, the Beis HaLevi starts from a hard question: how can Hashem harden Paroh's heart and then punish him, when we have free will? His answer leads somewhere surprising about a Jew's own heart. The Gemara in Menachos has a voice from heaven compare Klal Yisrael to an olive, and Rabbi Asaf Prisman unpacks what that comparison means for anyone who has fallen, and for how we look at others after they do.