The Compassionate Republicans

With landmark health care votes expected in the coming weeks, Republicans are warning voters that the Democratic plan to expand coverage to millions who lack it will increase costs for the average American.

When the great elder Hillel upon whom the entire Talmud-Book of Law is predicated was asked to explain the Torah/Teacher while standing on one leg–meaning he should explain himself in brief, answered: the entire Torah comes down to loving your friend like you love yourself. What love is greater than the love we harbor for ourselves?

Included in this simple admonition is the loving the one’s soul, loving the Creator and certainly loving our neighbors and fellow citizens.

Love in Hebrew Ahava is made from the word Hav/Giving and the Aleph/I in the beginning–Ahava/Love is I Give. To deny basic needs to those whose only sin is not being part of a manufactured and manipulative normality is tyranny.

In the Cabala love is not considered an emotion but a pathway from the brain to the heart called Dat/Knowing. Knowing is the source of compassion–the highest human attribute and is comprised on Love and Fear. Those who know God fear to be cruel before the Creator, but those who do not know God fear everything else.