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28 lip 2023 · First, love is not all about you, the lover, but about the other, the beloved. Love calls us out of the confines of ourselves and into the wilderness of relationship. It is a transformative experience that dethrones the ego and puts it to work in the fulfillment of the needs and desires of another.
1 lip 2024 · II Samuel 1:26: “I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.”. Song of Solomon 6:3: “I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.”.
14 lut 2020 · You love and give to YHWH by your actions of obedience. The form of the letter hei, the number five shows how to correctly love YHWH and man. The three lines of hei are a picture of loving YHWH with thought, deed, and words.
The Torah speaks extensively about love: Ahavah of Isaac toward his wayward son, Esau; ahavah of Jacob toward his wife Rachel; ahavah between G‑d and His people; ahavah we are to have for each other; and ahavah we are enjoined to extend to “strangers” .
The Hebrew word for love is אַהֲבָה;—ahavah, from the verbal root, אַהֵב—ahab, meaning “to love.” In Hebrew, therefore, one word, ahavah, expresses all forms of love: the love of a humans for God, the love of one human for another, and the love between male and female humans.
15 paź 2017 · “This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that a person will lay down his life for his friends.” That kind of love can only be found in sincere devotion and purity of heart.
There is God’s love for Israel, the love we are commanded to feel for God, romantic love for a partner, love for our fellow Jews… and, more unexpectedly, the love God commands us to feel for the stranger.
