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The love of God is perhaps the most essential element in Judaism-but also one of the most confounding. In biblical and rabbinic literature, the obligation to love God appears as a formal commandment. Yet most people today think of love as a feeling.
JUDAISM (̓Ιουδαϊσμῷ, KJV the Jews’ religion). This Gr. word occurs only twice (Gal 1:13, 14) in the Bible, in reference to the belief and life of the Jews. Judaism may be described as the religion of the Jews in contrast to that of the OT, although recognizing that it is firmly rooted in OT religious attitudes and practices ...
Bible can identify love and servitude and even use the same Hebrew word ( eved ) to refer to the loving “servant” of God as well as to the miserable “slave.”
The Bible recognizes that without justice love itself becomes a form of injustice; but in itself justice is not enough. It can only serve as a foundation; the superstructure – the bridge between God and man – is grace.
28 lip 2023 · The Hebrew word for love is ahavah, which is rooted in the more molecular word hav,1 which means to give, revealing that, according to Judaism, giving is at the root of love. What does this etymological insight teach us both about the function of love and about how love functions?
There’s a common misconception that Judaism is a religion of law and Christianity is a religion of love. But the very love commandments at the heart of Jesus’s teaching are direct quotes from Deuteronomy 6. Jesus, after all, was Jewish.
The Torah, or Jewish Written Law, consists of the five books of the Hebrew Bible – known more commonly to non-Jews as the “ Old Testament ” – that were given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai and include within them all of the biblical laws of Judaism. The Torah is also known as the Chumash, Pentateuch, or Five Books of Moses.
