Two Kinds of Love in the Promised Land:  The Fallacy of Loving Without Institutions
Judaism for the Thinking Person

Two Kinds of Love in the Promised Land: The Fallacy of Loving Without Institutions

2016-08-27
In Parashat Eikev in Deuteronomy, we find some new tones and nuances in Moses' explications of the covenantal love that will be necessary to build a nation and a society in the Promised Land.  (In fact, the very word "love" --ahavah-- appears a lot here in Deuteronomy, e.g. that we must not only not oppress the stranger --as stated previously in Torah-- but that we must love them actively.) Two of these explications are rehearsed twice daily in our prayers that go with the Shema.  One focuses o...
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