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Loving Your Fellow as Yourself

with Mendel Kaplan and Michael Kigel

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Topics: Tanya, Ahavat Yisrael

The Talmud teaches that the mitzvah of loving your fellow Jew is the entirety of Torah. How could this mitzvah that’s between man and man encompass all of Torah ... More

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	Michael Kigel is the producer of Passages and Messages, two weekly television shows entering their eleventh year of broadcast on CTS (Canada). He is also the Dean of the Jewish Leadership Program at the Lauder Business School in Vienna.

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Posted: Sep 4, 2011

Let us be cautious of overgeneralizations

Rabbi Kaplan, not all of us suffer from a distorted self-love blinding us to healthy self-judgment. Some of us suffer from a lack of healthy self-love leading us to distorted self-judgments. Both cases, by projection, cause distorted judgments of others.

The commandment 'Love your fellow as you love yourself' implies an axiomatic self-love that is invested in us,which nevertheless has to be unearthed.This unearthing is the very process of recognizing the G-dly spark within us and thus coming to love G-d in ourselves.Only then can we start to attempt to fulfill the mitzvah of recognizing and loving the G-dliness invested in our fellow Jew.

I perceive the issues raised by Rabbi Kigel relating to the spousal relation to be extremely valid. Perhaps the concept of 'the bashert' can help us to further elucidate this category of human relations.

I look forward to reading Chapter 32 in Tanya. Thank you both.

Posted By zeynep

Posted: Apr 10, 2010

love your self

Can you love your fellow man eventhough you do not love your self.

To love your fellow man you have to love yourself first. You have to accept yourself as you are before you accept others as they are.

Posted By leon roiter, barranquilla, colombia

Posted: Jan 19, 2010

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Thank you for these uplifting thoughts, isn't the thought that G-d wants us to allow the needs wants, desires, we have for ourselves likewise for our fellow, I think?

Posted By laurie claus