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The Man Who Mistook His Wife's Foot for His Own


The Talmud rules that "A man's wife is as his own body." Rabbi Aryeh Levine (d. 1969), known as "the Tzaddik of Jerusalem," exemplified this ideal. On one occasion, when accompanying his wife to a Jerusalem clinic, he explained to the physician: "Doctor, my wife's foot is hurting us."

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Love: an Anthology
Love Yourself
The Grammar of Love
Man and Woman
Mikvah Time
The Jealous Lover
Do We Love Too Much?
Trust
How to Criticize and Other Thoughts On Love
The Rebbe's Love Laboratory
Love According to the Rebbe
Love in a Heartbeat
The Calling
Uncle Irv
Mirrors
Sitting in a Café
The Gift
Two Against One
The Meaning of Love
The Man Who Mistook His Wife's Foot for His Own
Kabbalah of Love
Why Do We Fall in Love?
Alienation and Faith
The Loving Friends
Love at First Sight: Five Biblical Examples
A History of Love
24,000 Plus One
Partner
Are You Happily Ever After?
Ramblings about Stress and Love
The Cry of the Holy Sparks
The Morality of Weakness: Defining Sexual Harassment
Why Is Torah Law So Restrictive of Contact Between the Genders?
What If You Mess Up?
Tanya Chapter 32
The Baal Shem Tov on Love
A Joyous Divorce