Love Your Neighbor As Yourself

Exegetical Approaches

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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

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

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