Judaism is about love : recovering the heart of Jewish life, Shai Held (100%)

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• page 24: you don't tell them unless you want to enter into relationship with them. God makes it known to us that God loves us because God hopes that we in turn will reciprocate that love. 
• God loves us more than we love ourselves. This is part of why self-voting is so religiously problematic colon we are not hate what God loves. 
• Peggy as I've said, are worth is not something that we earn, but something that we strive to live up to. We matter, and matter ultimately, not because of what we do, because of what we are: creatures created in the image of God. 
• page 34 humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.
• page 91 ideally at least, parental love would be unconditional​. We would love our children in much the same way that God loves us: with expectations, but without conditions. 
• 110 emotions cannot be turned on like a tap, they can nevertheless be cultivated at that they become second nature
• 111 only when it is a duty to love, only then is live eternally secured — Kierkegaard 
• 119 crucially for our exploration of loving the neighbor, envy is hostile to others because it interprets their success as our failure, they're accomplishment as our defeat. If our sense of self worth depends on competition with others, then we become invested in their failure. ... To put this very simply, lack of stable sense of self-worth means that we are perpetually envious, which in turn means that we can't actually wish others well.
• 121 when all is said and done, the way we treat others is determined by how we look at them. Love is a way of being but it is also a way of seeing.