<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><font size="5" class="">I heard a beautiful d’rash by Rabbi Yosef Shusterman (Chabad of Beverly Hills).<br class="">He said the following:<br class="">If you ask 20 people the definition of “LOVE,” you will get 20 different responses.<br class="">However, the best definition of love is the Jewish definition.<br class="">He uses gematria. The gematria of Ahava is 13 and the gematria of Echod is 13.<br class="">“Love" is when you are at “one” with whomever or whatever.<br class="">Theologically, the love of God is when you are at one with God.<br class="">Sometimes it takes an entire lifetime to reach that madreiga.</font><br class=""><br class=""><span style="font-size: 21px;" class=""><i class="">I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.</i></span><br class=""><b class="">William Blake (18th c. poet, painter and printmaker)</b></body></html>