<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Reb Micha wrote the following:<div><br>Truth is, universal love with no differentiation is the same as<br>non-love. Picture this marriage proposal:<br>Tom: Cindy, will you marry me?<br>Cindy: But Tom, do you love me?<br>Tom: Of course, I love everyone!</div><div><br></div><div>Here's the weakness of the argument (as I see it).</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div>"...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 <i>Kedoshim</i>. 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.</div><div><br></div><div>(By the way, with the names Tom and Cindy, I was wondering if it was an intermarriage). :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Kol tuv,</div><div>ri</div></body></html>