Friday | Menachem Av 12 | 5703 | Torah lessons: | Chumash: Va'etchanan, Shishi with Rashi. | Tehillim: 66-68. | Tanya: But what causes (p. 399) ...who seeks it. (p. 401). | |
The Alter Rebbe repeated what the Mezritcher Maggid said quoting the Baal Shem Tov: "Love your fellow like yourself" is an interpretation of and commentary on "Love Hashem your G-d." He who loves his fellow-Jew loves G-d, because the Jew has with in himself a "part of G-d Above." Therefore, when one loves the Jew - i.e. his inner essence - one loves G-d.