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Judaism offers a variety of views regarding the love of God, love among human beings, and love for non-human animals. Love is a central value in Jewish ethics and Jewish theology. One of the core commandments of Judaism is "Love your neighbor as yourself" (Leviticus 19:18).
In Jewish thought the love and fear of God are to be understood as complementing one another. Fear without love can easily result in a too rigorous and ultimately stultifying approach to the religious life. Love without fear can just as easily degenerate into sheer sentimentalism.
G‑d chose that life should occur through love, because love is where G‑d can be found. And that is what He chose to desire—to be imminently found within His own creation. It follows, then, that the paradigm of all love affairs is the one between each one of us and the One who made us.
Maimonides, the great 12th century Jewish philosopher, never speaks of God as loving humans. The claim that “God loves” was too anthropomorphic, or anthropopathic, for him. He speaks quite poetically about our love for God and admonishes us to cultivate it. But to say that God loves us was too much for the philosophical purist in him.
Who or what is G‑d? How do we define the undefinable? Is there an intelligent way to speak of G‑d? If so, what is it? First in a six-part course on core Jewish beliefs.
28 Ιουλ 2023 · The Hebrew word for love is ahavah, which is rooted in the more molecular word hav, 1 which means to give, revealing that, according to Judaism, giving is at the root of love. What does this etymological insight teach us both about the function of love and about how love functions?
Throughout history, when human beings have sought hope they have found it in the Jewish story. Judaism is the religion, and Israel the home, of hope. Rabbi Jonathan Sacks is the former chief rabbi of the United Kingdom.
