The Great Commandment
We discuss the gospel reading Mathew 22:34-46 "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and all your mind.' And a second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'" We discuss the Old Testament passage Leviticus 19:1-2,15-18 which also states "you shall love your neighbor as yourself." We discuss how Yeshua expands the meaning of "neighbor" and fulfills God's covenant made with Abraham that his descendants shall be a blessing to all nations. We discuss the parable of the Good Samaritan in this context and Leviticus 19:33-34 which commands "You shall treat the stranger (Hebrew word ger) who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself." We discuss the second part of the same gospel reading where Yeshua confronts the Pharisees with their misunderstanding of the Messiah. The Pharisees answer that the Messiah is "the son of David" when David "by the Spirit calls him Lord, saying, 'The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet.'"
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