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In some cases, Rabbi Menachem Mendel seeks to clarify or reconcile earlier rabbinic interpretations of the commandments, especially where earlier rabbinic authorities disagree on the matter. In this regard, Hasidic interpretations are employed to refine the statements of earlier authorities and/or to
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According to Rabbi Menachem Mendel, this unity is representative of the unity between God and the Jewish people and is the root of all the commandments, for aside from the specifics of the individual commandment, each serve the additional function of uniting the Jews with God. Thus each commandment
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Rabbi Menachem Mendel resolves this question by introducing the Kabbalistic idea that the souls of the Jewish people compose a "single body"; each individual represents a particular limb. Based on this concept, every Jew is obligated to love his or her fellow though the other may have some
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deficiency, just as the individual often overlooks his or her own faults due to the natural love one has for one's self. When this kind of "self love" is extended to each other person, it achieves a very strong unity of spirit.
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and the convert. Hillel instructed a non-Jew wishing to convert "what to you is hateful do not do to your friend, this is the (root of) the entire Torah, the rest is commentary. Go and learn."
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For Rabbi Menachem Mendel, the idea of loving one's fellow should only be considered the root of all commandments that relate to human interactions, "between man and his friend" (
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Rabbi Menachem Mendel discusses the commandment to love one's fellow and not to hate him/her and questions the story in the Talmud concerning
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Rabbi Menachem Mendel published few of his works during his lifetime. The first edition of
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Discovering G-d in the Opening of the Oxford Huntington Manuscript of Maimonides
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Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn ("Tzemach Tzedek"), the third Rebbe of Chabad
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Selections from Derech Mitzvosecha: A Mystical Perspective on the Commandments
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Schneersohn, Menachem Mendel. "Issur Sinas Yisroel, Umitzvas Ahavas Yisroel."
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may be said to be the "commentary" of the commandment to love one's fellow.
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The Kehot editions include a number of appendices in the work, including
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oxfordchabad.org. March 28, 2013. Accessed May 8, 2014.
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and published in 2004 by the Chabad publishing house
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Sefer Hamitzvot (disambiguation)

ISBN
0826655904
Hebrew
Jewish commandments
Menachem Mendel Schneersohn
Rebbe
Chabad
Hasidic
Chabad philosophy
Tzitzit
Tefillin
Hillel the Elder
Poltava
Kehot Publication Society
Eliyahu Touger
Sichos in English
Tanya
Shneur Zalman of Liadi
The Gutnick Edition Chumash - Book of Genesis


Derech Mitzvosecha
Tzemach Tzedek
Discovering G-d in the Opening of the Oxford Huntington Manuscript of Maimonides
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Selections from Derech Mitzvosecha: A Mystical Perspective on the Commandments

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