Behar - Spritual Vampires Feeding Off Human Weakness

What makes Ribis so spiritually destructive that Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai says the lender “loses more than he gains”?This shmooze, delivered at Mevaseret Mishmar, explores why Ribis is not merely a financial prohibition, but a worldview — one that slowly trains a person to see human vulnerability as opportunity, relationships as transactions, and morality as negotiable when profit is involved.Why does the Gemara say that lending with interest can ultimately lead a person to belittle Moshe Rabbeinu and the Torah itself?A deep psychological and spiritual analysis of desire, scarcity, ego, empathy, and the frightening human capacity to remake morality in the image of appetite.