Loving Your Fellow as Yourself

when you accept yourself as being created in HIS image you will have a high self-esteem and with that knowledge you can feel love for all the people around you.
How can you love someone if you do not even love yourself.
you have to forgive yourself before you can forgive others. Reply

Thank you for sharing this beautiful insight of our shared Soul and Oneness of G-ds spark above \ within. א

Just read chapter 32 with the reference of לב

Right at the end there is a new beginning about a meditation, where may i find out more about this next nugget of wisdom?

Sending Soul Sparks and Joy! Reply

"Hillel said that which you detest do not do to your fellow man." Hillel in Pirke Avot said to understand others you have to walk in their shoes. Understand what hurts you and don't do it to others. This is compassion, but compassion based on fear of God. It is easy to love, because that is selfish. It is harder not to hurt, because that requires seeing yourself in others and knowing,"Though I may or may not like you or and so not benefit from our relationship, nonetheless I can see myself in you and in hurting you I hurt myself." Reply

kipur You hurt your self when you do not accept your self as A´Shem made you. Yom hakipurim was designed to forgive your self for attemting aginst A´Shem´s design. A´Shem made you with all the necessary tools recquired to realize all your dreams.Yom hakipurim was designed to help you forgive yourself for all the thoughts you have created to keep you from fullfilling A´Shem´s wish. Forgive yourself for not believing in yourself for thinking you are not capable, for believing you are not limitless. your were made a bit inferior than angels. you were made by A´shem´s hands.


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Hillel said don't hurt others. Reply

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. Reply

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. Reply

Articles with Mendel Kaplan, Michael Kigel & Manis 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? Reply