To Love

To love is to sigh at another’s sorrow, to rejoice at another’s good fortune.

To love is the deepest of all pleasures.

By Tzvi Freeman

From the wisdom of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, of righteous memory; words and condensation by Rabbi Tzvi Freeman. Subscribe and get your dose daily. To order Rabbi Freeman’s latest book, Wisdom to Heal the Earth, click here.

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RW Texas, USA June 3, 2024

Thank you Rebbe Freeman.

My view is this.

The world is all love ! Its continuous creation is one of love. It is for us individually to remove the veils which obscure the truth. Reply

Avishai Barbourville, KY June 2, 2024

There is only one G-d that extends One Mind in which we dream our conscious lives with our souls.

These life-dreams are the essence of the Actuality of everything as we sense it, and name it. We see forms, smell scents, hear vibrating sounds, taste flavors, all extensions of the sense of touch, but only the I AM is the actuality of anything here, not the names we give them. We are only the “me”, the wondering me whose actuality we cannot find because we are searching in our dreams, our imagination that exists when we sleep. This is the factor of our personal egos.

The word is not the thing. The map is not the territory. You will be complete when you let go and let G-d. Reply

Feigue Cieplinski Middletown June 2, 2024

Judaism is a religion of the here and now- not of Heaven .
With two feet grounded in THIS world how shall we survive? Like loving your neighbor commandment we have a similar one once out of the Gan Eden: Adam and Eve had to cooperate and , surely, love each other to survive. I would argue that love is the key to tat survival: Companionship and support also essential. to thrive, and be part of a community.
While "Love yourself" is paramount to be able to share love with someone else. so is sharing. The felling of contentment when one finds that love translates too in a deeper love for Hashem. with gratitude. Pleasure in Judaism is definitely not a sin! Reply

Brenda Toronto, Canada January 5, 2016

Love Is Out Of This World Our world runs on egoism - to fill ourselves with pleasure.

To attain the G_d's world we need to accept the opposite - how to get pleasure from fulfilling others.
This happens when we feel the other as an integral part of myself - in fact me, other people and all of nature form one integrated system similar to a healthy body.

The crises in our egoistic world will force us to recognize our sick state. Then with our participation the Light will form the perfect LOVE between us.
Then we will see the greatest pleasure comes from mutual love and care between us. Reply

Anonymous inside and out May 8, 2019

in response to Brenda:

B-H
Shalom Aleichem, Brenda.

Mutual care?
Mutual love?
I don't see it
from other humans
except sometimes the slightest
glimmer or flavor
of something
akin to affection
but untouchable
arrives from afar.
Then come the doubts:
Are the mind and heart
working together to conjure a fantasy
to satisfy the longing of the soul
for human connection?
-for a real conversation between souls
before going to the next World
where this physical world no longer matters?

I am disappointed
I was not good
clean enough
sufficiently giving
with boundless energy
resistant to feeling hurt and desire
and impermeable to negativity
to experience
mutual human love and care in this world.

I hope you enjoyed Pesach
and I pray you continue to enjoy and share
your profound understanding of our L-rd
and how He works.
Amen

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Brenda Toronto, Ontario, Canada May 10, 2019

in response to Anonymous:

Discernments Of Love B - H
Aleichem Shalom, friend.

Beautiful expression of the discernments of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil!

It's a high state to recognize that we don't know what True Love is yet.
It is even more courageous to admit that our ego prevents us from this sublime actions of Love and unity.

To understand G_d we will need to understand Love.
When we are able to Love the Giver and not the gifts, then we will reveal the Giver.
That will be the fruits of our labour.

I share in the hope that all will discern our critical state in this world and aspire to merit soul-senses. Then we can all know Love in that sublime unity where we reveal His Light flowing in the connections of Love between us! Reply

Same Anonymous May 10, 2019

in response to Brenda:

Amen
And thank you very much.
Gut Shabbos. Reply

Anonymous November 8, 2011

love 7 billion people on the planet. 7 billion definitions of love. This definition works as well as any.

The definition of love is so elusive. I like The Beatles - " all there is is love Love, love is all there is ". I also like the Keats poem, " A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever " if you interpret beauty as truth and truth as beauty as his poem states, and then equate both of those to love. thus love is a joy forever, and it doesn't get much better than that. But that's just 2 out of 7 billion. Okay third and last one, i promise, Beethoven's " Ode to Joy " where joy is love.

Note, i said i like them. I still haven't figured mine out. There is so much to love. I mean that both ways. So much in life to love. So much encompassed by the subject of love.

It's glowing just to think about it. Thanks for presenting the thought. Reply

peggy brooks chesapeake,va., United States November 29, 2008

To love YES! ;) love sharing great truth & G-D's love , love the HOLY TARAH & the HOLY BIBLE. Reply

Prophet-key monrovia, Lib November 28, 2008

love The greatest love, in this world, is found within the Holy Tarah. Love your fellow men, like yourself. if we pratice it, there will be no rooms, for hatters. And this place, will be better for us all, follow the Torah, you will no, how to love, how to show love, and how to share love, the Torah as it all. Shabat Shalom. Reply

nd louisville, ky November 28, 2008

To Love To love, how great it feels to be loved. How great it is to be the giver of love, to make someone smile. How much more to go the extra inch and do something in the name of love, for the sake of love and to do it for all the ones in the kingdom to bring peace and fullfillment, unity and wholeness. Reply

Elad Ben Avraham Baltimore, MD November 28, 2008

Mumbai Tragedy I, too will light the Shabbat candles for the rabbi and his family as well others who gave their lives in pursuit of service and Kiddush Hashem. Reply

Constance Morro Bay, Ca November 28, 2008

Love to the Chabad Family in Mumbai May G-d Bless and Keep the Jewish Community around the world. I will light The Shabbat Candles for The Rabbi, His Wife, and Young Moshe tonight. Reply

julie s November 28, 2008

truely beautiful. Reply

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