Questions tagged [love-thy-neighbor]
Questions regarding the biblical commandment to "love thy neighbor as thyself"
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Informing someone that the food they are eating is permissible only b'deved(after the fact)
Does one need to inform someone that the food they are about to eat is permissible b'deved(after the fact)?
Example 1: Some milk fell into the chulent and the Rabbi employed batel b'shishim and now ...
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Must you love your wife more than your friend?
The Rambam (Hilchus Ishus 15:19) writes:
כן צוו חכמים שיהיה אדם מכבד את אשתו יתר מגופו ואוהבה כגופו
The Chachamim instituted that [each] man should respect his wife more than himself, and love her ...
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Why R' Akiva's "Love your neighbor" didn't make it to Bavli?
R'Akiva's famous statement appears in Safra, Bereyshis Rabbah, and (Yerushalmi Nedarim 30b):
"ואהבת לרעך כמוך" רבי עקיבה אומר זהו כלל גדול בתורה.
"Love your neighbor as yourself". ...
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Where ואהבת לרעך applies to one's wife?
In Kiddushin 41a we read that if the wife is/becomes repulsive to her husband he [might be] overriding/transgressing the Mitzvah of ואהבת:
"דאמר רב יהודה אמר רב אסור לאדם שיקדש את האשה עד שיראנה
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Can we hasten Moshiach's coming through the mitzvah of ואהבת לרעך כמוך?
In Jewish singer Meilech Kohn's song, "Veuhavtu", he expresses an interesting thought in the lyrics:
.יעדער איינער דאווענט און בעט און מ'ווארט פאר משיח, ער וועט נאר קומען ווען מיר פארטראגן זיך
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V'ahavta l're'eicha kamocha -- re'eicha velo akum?
Do any rabbinical sources hold that the commandment in Leviticus 19:18 to love one's neighbour as oneself (ואהבת לרעך כמוך) applies to non-Jews as well as Jews?
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Meaning of "Love your neighbor is a big principle in the Torah"
In the Talmud Yerushalmi, Nedarim 30b
ואהבת לרעך כמוך: אמר רבי עקיבא זה כלל גדול בתורה:
"You shall love your fellow as yourself. Said Rabbi Akiva: This is a great principle in the Torah."
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