[Avodah] Love your fellow as yourself

[David Eisen]

RME said:

This is off the top of my head, but I believe it was the Maharsha who
explained that he was asking for a basic principle.  Shammai pulled out
his building stick to indicate that this was the wrong way to look at
the Torah; it was not a tree, with all of the mitzvoth branching off a
single trunk, but, rather, a building which required a broad foundation.

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Kol tuv,
DE