Best quotes by Meir Soloveichik on Love

Checkout quotes by Meir Soloveichik on Love

• ‟ Humanity was created in the image of God; our love is a reflection of his.

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• ‟ Humanity was created in the image of God; our love is a reflection of his.

  - Meir Soloveichik
  

• ‟ Stanley Hauerwas is correct that Judaism insists on the bearing of children because it is essential to Jewish continuity. But to end the matter there is to miss an essential point: if we are to learn to love others, Judaism says, we must begin by loving those who are closest to us.

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• ‟ Judaism, I would argue, does demand love for our fellow human beings, but only to an extent. 'Hate' is not always synonymous with the terribly sinful.

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• ‟ The election of the Jewish people is the result of God's falling in love with Abraham and founding a family with him.

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• ‟ If God loves human beings and seeks to relate to them because he is drawn to something unique about them, then his love must be exclusive and cannot be universal.

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• ‟ Marriage is about love, but it is not first and foremost about love. First and foremost, marriage is about continuity and transmission.

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• ‟ Corresponding to the image of a monotheistic God is monogamous marriage. Marriage based on exclusive and definitive love becomes the icon of the relationship between God and his people and vice versa.

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