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Torah
A thought for every day of the Hebrew year, from the Rebbe’s book. It is the same entry every year, on the same Hebrew date.
28 Nisan 5787
Chassidim asked the Alter Rebbe: "Which is the superior avoda, love of G‑d or love of Israel?" He replied: "Both love of G‑d and love of Israel are equally engraved in every Jew's neshama, ruach, and nefesh.[1] Scripture is explicit: 'I have loved you, says the L-rd.'[2] It follows that love of Israel is superior - for you love whom your beloved loves."
Compiled and arranged by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, in 5703 (1943) from the talks and letters of the sixth Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory.
Different levels or aspects of the soul. The two loves thoroughly permeate the soul on every level.
Malachi 1:2.
Footnotes
החסידים שאלו את אדמו"ר הזקן: איזה עבודה נעלית יותר, אהבת ה' או אהבת ישראל. ויען: אהבת ה' ואהבת ישראל שתיהן כאחת חקוקות בנשמתו רוחו ונפשו של כל אחד מישראל. ומקרא מלא דיבר הכתוב אהבתי אתכם אמר ה', הרי דגדולה אהבת ישראל, דאוהב מה שהאהוב אוהב.
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Hayom Yom, compiled and arranged by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, in 5703 (1943) from the talks and letters of the sixth Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory. Text from chabad.org.