Kedoshim — Love Your Neighbor and Love Your Enemy

Love the LORD your God

It is natural for a man to love God, if he believes in God:

The gematria of this verse is 907.

Love Your Neighbor as Yourself

But love your neighbor is not natural, it is even difficult to love your neighbor as yourself, as such this commandment is followed by a divine signature, i.e. I am the LORD, in other word, don’t ask why, just do it:

The gematria of this verse is also 907.

This comes to teach us that love your neighbor as yourself carries the same weight as love the LORD your God, which are called the two greatest commandments in Torah (Mat 22:40).

Love Your Enemy

If love your neighbor as yourself is difficult, how much more so it is for one to love one’s enemy, as the concept is simply irrational. But when do we perform a commandment because it makes sense?

Since it is irrational to love the enemy, one therefore must take an extra effort, i.e. to emphasis on “and you shall love”:

Astonishingly, the gematria of these three words is exactly 907, which is the same gematria of the two greatest commandments of Torah, as above.

907 is the 156^th prime number, and 156 is the gematria of Joseph יוֹסֵף, who is the quintessential prototype of he who loves his enemy, for Joseph’s brother hated him (Gen 37:4), but Joseph loved his enemy nevertheless.

God is Love

YHVH appeared in Torah exactly 1820 times, this is well established.

The gematria of the first word in Torah Bereshit בְּרֵאשִׁית is 913, when the word is spelled out in full, the gematria is 1820, as follows:

It follows that the gematria of the letters used for spelling out Bereshit is 1820 – 913 = 907, which is exactly the gematria of love your God, love your neighbor and love your enemy, as above. This comes to teach us that love is what motivated the creation at the beginning.

In above verse, the letter Kaf (כ) in her sofit form (ך) appears twice. The normative form has a gematria of 20, the sofit form can have a gematria of 500. Together, the gematria of these three words is exactly 1820, which is the signature of God, as YHVH appeared 1820 times in Torah.

This comes to teach us that “love your neighbor as yourself” without the divine signature (I am the LORD) is in fact the divine signature in and of itself.

1820 = 26 x 70, therefore “love your neighbor as yourself” is the “secret of YHVH”:

Love Your Enemy as Yourself

Who is our enemy?

According to the mystics, this enemy is none other than our soul that was trapped in the physical body.

If we are commanded to love our neighbor as ourselves, how much more so are we to love our own soul?

The gematria of these three words is 543, which is exactly the gematria of the spelling out of love, hence “love your enemy as yourself” is the essence of love.

Love Your God

The complete verse in Torah is:

The gematria is 1644, which is exactly the gematria of love plus the three possible spellings out of love (for Hey can be spelled out with an Alef, Hey, or Yud), as follows:

This comes to teach us that to love God is the full manifestation of love.

The love is manifested at three levels:

The average number is 507 / 3 = 169, which is exactly love (13) squared.

Faith, Hope and Love

It is by no accident that this is the 13^th verse of the 13^th chapter, where 13 is the gematria of love אַהֲבָה.

Faith and hope has a gematria of 613, which corresponds to 613 commandments of Torah:

And the entire Torah can be summarized in one word, even love (Gal 5:14).

What is the commandment that precedes the greatest commandment in Torah?

How do you rebuke your neighbor? The answer is from love, the gematria of “from love” תּוֹךְ אַהֲבָה is 439, which is exactly the same as rebuke תּוֹכֵחָה.

Immediately follows “rebuke your neighbor” is the commandment to “love your neighbor as yourself”:

The gematria of these two verses (rebuke and love) is 1424 + 820 = 2244, which is exactly the gematria of faith, hope, and love, if the three possible spellings out of love are used, to symbolize the love being the greatest of the three: