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GENESIS | 5:1 likeness — GEN540 Rabbi Akiva taught: “Love your neighbor as...

GEN540 Rabbi Akiva taught: “Love your neighbor as yourself” Leviticus 19:18: this is a great principle in the Torah.  Therefore, do not say: “Since I was demeaned [/dishonored], let my fellow be demeaned [/dishonored] as well, since I was cursed let me fellow be cursed as well.”  Rabbi Tanhuma said: If you do this, know Whom you are demeaning, [since] “In the image of God He made him” Genesis Rabbah 24:7, elaborating on Genesis 5:1. (By Uzi Weingarten and the Editors) DORFF-RUTTENBERGSOC 38

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Verse5:1
Keyword(s)likeness
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