[Avodah] "There's Hope for Everyone"

[Cantor Wolberg]

Reb Micha wrote the following:

Truth is, universal love with no differentiation is the same as
non-love. Picture this marriage proposal:
Tom: Cindy, will you marry me?
Cindy: But Tom, do you love me?
Tom: Of course, I love everyone!

Here's the weakness of the argument (as I see it).

The Torah talks about love FOLLOWING marriage.  So when Tom says he  
loves everyone, that's ONE kind of love. But the love that follows  
marriage is the special kind as alluded to in the Torah.
"...Yitzchok married Rivka, she became his wife, and [THEN] he loved  
her..." Bereshis 24:67  So when Tom says he loves everyone, that's the  
kind of love the Torah refers to in Kedoshim. There are all different  
kinds of love, so the above mashul doesn't mean that universal love  
has no differentiation. Of course, there is differentiation. But that  
differentiation should not preclude universal love.

(By the way, with the names Tom and Cindy, I was wondering if it was  
an intermarriage). :-)

Kol tuv,
ri
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