DEUT211 Every ethical utterance of the Talmud is alive with human kindness and is motivated by the ideals of holiness and love -- the most powerful incentives to good living. The command: "And thou shalt love the Lord your God" [this verse] is explained by the Rabbis thus: "Act in such a manner that God will be beloved by His creatures." (Yoma 86a; Sifre Deuteronomy xxxii). The ideal Jewish life must be a successive Kiddush Ha'shem, a constant endeavor to avoid perpetrating any action calculated to profane the holiness with which Judaism has been invested. A Rabbi (Sanhedrin 107a) did not hesitate to brand Hillul Ha'shem, the desecration of the name of God, as "the gravest sin", a sin can only be expiated by death (Yoma 86a).