The people of the paradox

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Some 2000 years ago, a gentile joined the budding Jewish nation to become the greatest teacher that ever lived. He had 24,000 students and he taught one rule: love your fellow man as you love yourself. "As yourself", meaning you love yourself more than anything else, so love this person next to you more than anything including yourself. Bu Akiva didn't teach a moral code, he taught a reality hack. What prevented Jews in the times of the second temple from exercising love to save themselves back then and do we have a chance of finding love between us now when not only the fate of Israel is at stake, but the fate of the entire world.

Lio: group is compelled to help others in times of crisis, but the unique role of the Jews, as we're trying to explore, is a specific kind of inner unity that influences the rest of the world.
Seth: And you're saying that when they deviate from this, when they don't maintain that unity, it brings about negative consequences?
Lio: Exactly. It's almost like there's a cosmic expectation for Jews to play this integral role, and when they don't, it disrupts some kind of balance. That's what we're trying to investigate here on The Jew Function.