Love

Thirty two articles and stories on love: filial love, romantic love, friendship, love of self, love of G-d -- so different from each other, yet somehow all the same

We all want love. We know it fulfills a basic need in the human experience. Without it we feel miserable and with it we feel elated. But what is it?

Understanding the components of love gives us a deeper understanding of the emotion itself. It also explains the essential connection between love and our humanity, to love is to be a “mentch”.

How do you find love? Create some.

The year is the same, the days are the same, but the months are different. It is a time quite individual -- created by G-d, especially for me...

Is the mystique and the romance, the music and the moonlight, just nature's way of hoodwinking men and women to reproduce?

A love relationship can thus be compared to an electrical circuit: should the resistance fall, the circuit will "short" and burn out

Marriages need separations. Sometimes a couple will get into arguments and be angry at each other just for the sake of creating a distance so that husband and wife can feel like they’re coming together . . . But there’s a better way.

How can we truly love another? Isn't that a logical impossibility?

A famous talk by the Lubavitcher Rebbe analyzes the lives of Noah, Abraham and Moses as milestones in humanity's journey from an instinctive selfhood to a true concept of "love" for a one's fellow. We also encounter the basis of the Rebbe's ...