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Torah Book & Portion, Book of Deuteronomy, Va'etchanan (Deuteronomy 3:23–7:11), Source Book Keys, COHON

DEUTERONOMY | 6:5 love — DEUT238 Though fear and love came to be used in c...

DEUT238 Though fear and love came to be used in combination, the rabbis call attention to the root differences. Commenting on [this verse], "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God," the Sifre observes: "Scripture has distinguished between one who serves God from love and one who serves Him from fear.… Sometimes a man who is afraid of his fellow will leave him when he becomes troublesome and go his way. But act thou out of love, for there is no love where there is fear, nor fear where there is love, except in relation God alone." Sifra 32. R. Simeon b. Eleazar teaches: "Greater is he who acts from love than he who acts from fear." Abraham is the prototype of God-loving men; Job of God-fearing men, though on the ground of Job 13:15 and 27:5 he too was claimed to have served God from the motive of pure love. Sotah 31a; 5:5, Zohar, I, 11b.

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