Love Your Neighbor… as Yourself?-Parshas Kedoshim
We are all familiar with the overarching directive appearing in this week’s parshah: “V’ahavta l’rei’acha kamocha – You shall love your neighbor as yourself” (Vayikra 19:18). And, as we know, it is most central to our overall Torah fulfillment; as the Medrash relates in the name of R’ Akiva: וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ - זֶה כְּלַל גָדוֹל בַּתּוֹרָה – “‘V’ahavta l’rei’acha kamocha’ is a primary principle of the Torah” (Bereishis Rabbah 24:7). And yet, with all of that – when we really [...]
