LEV729 In his essay about Kierkegaard, Buber notes that the biblical command to love God reads, "Love God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might" (Deuteronomy 6:5), and the command to love humans says, "Love your neighbor as one like yourself" [this verse]. The neighbor--the one encountered fairly regularly--is to be loved "as I wish it may be shown to me." Between Man and Man, Smith, trans. (Boston: Beacon Press, 1947) p.66. That this love given to the unique other is to a certain degree self-serving does not revert this I-Thou relationship back to an I-It relation automatically. Rather, this idiosyncratic expression of love expresses both the concrete uniqueness of the loved and lover. Love among humans thus differs in degree. Love between humans and God, however, is a different kind: it is to be done with all one's heart, soul, and might. (See Deuteronomy 6:5. This verse and the following five verses constitute the first of the three paragraphs of the Shema, the watchword of Jewish liturgy and faith). (By Jonathan K. Crane)