"Is It a Mitzvah to Love Your Enemy?"- Rabbi Shai Held and Rabba Yaffa Epstein (Streicker Center)

Part two in a series of four pop-up classes with leading rabbis, all moderated by JBS's own Abigail Pogrebin. The series is entitled "Four Big Jewish Questions for This Moment." This second episode features Rabbi Shai Held (President & Dean, The Hadar Institute) and Rabba Yaffa Epstein (Senior Scholar-in-Residence, The Jewish Education Project) tackling the difficult question of whether it is a mitzvah to love your enemy, and to what extent the notion of loving enemies in general is actually a Jewish idea rather than a Christian one, as is widely believed.

[@angelasophia3705]

I appreciate the discussion and the wisdom shared here. I will say that there are some people who don't have humanity. And to project humanity onto them, to imagine something that isn't there, because you fear your own reaction to evil, endangers you and doesn't help you at all. Evil will manipulate you on every basis where you are in denial. Discernment of such people, discernment of evil, isn't easy. It's not just some group over there and everyone is easily identifiable. It takes wisdom to be able to see it.

[@clairezet3182]

THIS IS BRILLIANT WHAT YOU HAVE SAID, AND VERY RIGHT.

[@clairezet3182]

IT IS BECAUSE WE WERE COMPASSIONATE TO AMALEKITES AND DIDN'T DESTROY ALL OF THEM THAT THE REMNANT OF EVIL THAT REMAINED NOW PERVADES THE WORLD. THIS WAS A MISPLACED COMPASSION - A SIN IN JUDAISM. DESTRYING EVIL SO THAT GOOD CAN REIGN IS A NOBLE ACT.

[@Antiquitycar]

Sounds like good Christians.

[@Joseph-mh9xd]

Looks like your a clown

[@MishMichaeli]

Good Christians sound like a jew.❤