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Love Your Neighbor As Yourself
Exegetical Approaches
Love
The law demands that one should feel love for one's neighbor, just as one does for one's self.
Can you command an emotion
"כָּמוֹךָ"
"ואהבת את רעך" vs. "אָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ"
Context
Comparable verses
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.
