I am kind of surprised there was no mention of Rabbi Aqiva exicitly answering this question in the affirmative - "'Love your peers as yourself' - this is a great principle in the Torah." And when Ben Azzai disagrees, it is only because he feels that our compassion to others should be based on everyone being in a single family, descendents of Adam, and each northing less than an Image of the Divine. And while Hillel summed up the Torah in not acting in ways you would consider hurtful if done to you, how far is such empathy and compassion from love? Is there anyone among the sages of the Mishnah and Talmud who offers an overarching theme to the Torah that is *not* about love, kindness, empathy and/or compassion toward other human beings?
While Judaism is about love, one has to consider the possibility that Hashem did in fact give a written and oral Torah at Har Sinai. The possibility is very strong and there is also a very strong possibility that as Torah has been handed down for 1000's of years is pretty much what was handed down Sinai. I'm not asking you to agree, but to consider what the possibility is. A lot of the people here are substack are amazing and your arguments are good. But if there is a devine will and traditional orthodox Judaism has it correct, then I wish that all of you fine people er on the side of caution, and join in the with use who are deeply committed to keeping this tradition to the tee. I say this out of pure love for you and the others I have met on this site.
Well, first of all, Judaism is Not about loving evil, loving yourself like narcissism, to the exclusion of everyone else, not about loving pleasure at the expense of someone else, not about forgetting the poor, because you can afford to enjoy yourself and don’t need to think about those other people. It’s not about being selfish and proud that you are so much better than someone else who you don’t know has been trying to do the best they can. It’s not about being so happy that you’re blessed so much more than the joes down the street or around the block or in another town, so that you can prove it to your friends. It is not being immoral. Attracting the evil eye because of lewdness.
It seems the forgotten part is thoughts and intentions which are only noticed by G-D. This country has made the fourth word in the title of this article a repulsive word.
I am kind of surprised there was no mention of Rabbi Aqiva exicitly answering this question in the affirmative - "'Love your peers as yourself' - this is a great principle in the Torah." And when Ben Azzai disagrees, it is only because he feels that our compassion to others should be based on everyone being in a single family, descendents of Adam, and each northing less than an Image of the Divine. And while Hillel summed up the Torah in not acting in ways you would consider hurtful if done to you, how far is such empathy and compassion from love? Is there anyone among the sages of the Mishnah and Talmud who offers an overarching theme to the Torah that is *not* about love, kindness, empathy and/or compassion toward other human beings?
While Judaism is about love, one has to consider the possibility that Hashem did in fact give a written and oral Torah at Har Sinai. The possibility is very strong and there is also a very strong possibility that as Torah has been handed down for 1000's of years is pretty much what was handed down Sinai. I'm not asking you to agree, but to consider what the possibility is. A lot of the people here are substack are amazing and your arguments are good. But if there is a devine will and traditional orthodox Judaism has it correct, then I wish that all of you fine people er on the side of caution, and join in the with use who are deeply committed to keeping this tradition to the tee. I say this out of pure love for you and the others I have met on this site.
Judaism is a Clean religion, an immaculate religion of relationships. Not masked hatred pretense of appearance of friendship.
Not the word in English, that’s for sure. The word originally written should be researched and studied to understand it properly.
Well, first of all, Judaism is Not about loving evil, loving yourself like narcissism, to the exclusion of everyone else, not about loving pleasure at the expense of someone else, not about forgetting the poor, because you can afford to enjoy yourself and don’t need to think about those other people. It’s not about being selfish and proud that you are so much better than someone else who you don’t know has been trying to do the best they can. It’s not about being so happy that you’re blessed so much more than the joes down the street or around the block or in another town, so that you can prove it to your friends. It is not being immoral. Attracting the evil eye because of lewdness.
It seems the forgotten part is thoughts and intentions which are only noticed by G-D. This country has made the fourth word in the title of this article a repulsive word.