The politics of LOVE

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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. But Akiva didn't teach a moral code, he taught a reality hack. So 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.

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Seth: You can kill every Jew that you can put your hands on, but you'll never destroy the entire nation.
Lio: This guy comes and says he had the most students, 24,000 students. He says, this is the rule, do that, and yet we do everything but that.
Seth: You know what I mean? Like, we all hurt. Our whole lives, love your neighbor as yourself, but it never registered.
Lio: All they want to do is just build another summer house, and suddenly they have to actually save the country.
Seth: The Jews have an obligation to the world, and until they carry it out, they cannot be destroyed.
Lio: We have a chance to build a global temple. We don't care about money; we care about uniting the world.