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portance of the human body in love was a Jewish concept and was a rejection of a neo-PlatonIc attitude which thought of love in purely spiritual terms. One of Leone's major themes is that the cosmos is infused with love. He conceives of the order of things in terms of a circle whose beginning and end is God.!) Love originates with God and ...
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 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.
28 lut 2021 · As the above analysis has demonstrated, love was widely regarded by Jewish, Christian, and Muslim mystics as a powerful energy that when properly directed could elevate a person’s soul to receive God and at the same time invite the Divine to be embraced by the ascending soul.
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.
A profound, startling new understanding of Jewish life, illuminating the forgotten heart of Jewish theology and practice: love. A dramatic misinterpretation of the Jewish tradition has shaped the history of the West: Christianity is the religion of love, and Judaism the religion of law.
Through an examination of several key modern Jewish thinkers, including Spinoza, Mendelssohn, Rosenzweig, and Buber, and by focusing on a traditional Jewish concept and value, the Love of God, this paper claims that the Love of God functions as the orienting principle for much of modern Jewish thought, just as it did throughout the history of ...
