Many claim that the God of the Hebrew Bible is a God of law, as opposed to the God of the Christian Bible who is a God of love.  But can one love without laws?  What does it mean to say God loves us, and perhaps more important, what does it mean to say we love God?

We all dream of romantic love.  We all dream of finding that special person for a lifetime of bliss together.  Why does it go wrong so often?  How can we find Mr. or Ms. Right?

The Torah never commands children to love their parents, nor parents to love their children.  And yet generation to generation is a central theme of Jewish thought and liturgy.  What do parents owe children, and what do children owe parents?

There are people in the world who want to hurt us and destroy us.  How are we to deal with them when  we are asked to love our neighbor.

At the center of the Torah is the commandment, Love Your Neighbor As Yourself.  Can feelings, particularly feelings of love, be commanded?  Or is this simply a commandment of action.  How are we to act towards others, regardless of how we feel about them?

A Rabbi's Search for Love - part 1  The Four Worlds of Love.  What is love, and what does it mean to love someone in each of the four worlds of the kabbalah.

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