• Love Was The Highest Motivation, Even Among The ...

  Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 11, 2008 (message contributor)

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Love was the highest motivation, even among the Jews. We read in the Talmud:

"What difference is there between one who acts from love and one who acts from fear? — The difference is that indicated in this teaching: R. Simeon b. Eleazar says: Greater is he who acts from love than he who acts from fear…" Babylonian Talmud: Tractate Sotah Folio 31a