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The covenant entered into between the Israelites and God was a covenant of law, not just of love. Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan, in The Living Torah, got it right when he translated it as “God your Lord will keep the covenant and love with which He made an oath to your fathers.”. Not “covenant of love” but “covenant and love.”.
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.” Deut. 6:5 “You shall love your neighbour as yourself.” Lev. 19:18. And “You shall love the stranger, for you were once strangers in a strange land.” Deut. 10:19. Not only is Judaism a religion of love.
The Morality of Love. Eikev • 5772. Something implicit in the Torah from the very beginning becomes explicit in the book of Devarim. God is the God of love. More than we love Him, He loves us. Here, for instance, is the beginning of this week’s parsha. If you pay attention to these laws and are careful to follow them, then the Lord your God ...
Aug 24, 2023 · About the Author. Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (1948-2020) was a global religious leader, philosopher, the author of more than 25 books, and moral voice for our time. He served as Chief Rabbi of the ...
It is a supremely altruistic love, for to love one's neighbour as oneself means always to put oneself in his place and to act on his behalf as one would naturally and selfishly act on one's own.”[4] To be sure, Buddhism also makes space for the idea of love, though it is differently inflected, more impersonal and unrelated to a relationship with God.
Jun 11, 2022 · 1. The Power of Empathy: Rabbi Sacks told a story about the power of empathy: “William Ury, founder of the Harvard Program of Negotiation, tells a marvellous story in one of his books. A young American, living in Japan to study aikido, was sitting one afternoon in a train in the suburbs of Tokyo. The carriage was half empty.
It is a sickness of the soul. Jonathan Sacks. Hate, Believe, Soul. 36 Copy quote. There's always hope. You can lose everything else in the world, but Jews never lose hope. Jonathan Sacks. World, Never Lose Hope, Jew. 7 Copy quote.
