GEN51 [In the view of Jewish thinkers], that which we have in common with God is that which makes us human. By determining in what sense we have been created in the divine image, we can discern the characteristic that both makes us most like God and that reveals the essence of our humanity.  From this perspective, love is understood as the attraction of “like to like,” i.e., two loving partners are drawn toward each other because of a shared essential quality.  Hence, love of God stems from the desire of the divinely implanted part of us – from the quintessentially human feature of our existence that we bear and share with God—to attain communion with the divine.  HTBAJ 30-1