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Love Your Neighbor As Yourself

Exegetical Approaches

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Love

The law demands that one should feel the same amount of love for one's neighbor as for one's self.

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Generosity of Spirit

The verse commands that we should want for the other what we would want for ourselves.

Actions

Loving another as one's self entails treating the other as we would want to be treated.

Sources:RambamHilkhot Eivel 14:1About R. Moshe b. Maimon, Sefer HaChinukh243About Sefer HaChinukh, RalbagVayikra 19:18About R. Levi b. Gershom, HaKetav VeHaKabbalahVayikra 19:18About R. Yaakov Mecklenburg, R. D"Z HoffmannVayikra 19:18About R. David Zvi Hoffmann