"Ani Hashem"

Rabbi Sadiya Gaon

I am Hashem that repays you goodness.

God acts towards humans with never ending kindness and as we saw above, humans are created in the image of God. That means we strive to emulate God, no matter how hard.

In fact, this is hard to do specifically because it is a godly act. 

Ibn Ezra

I am the One Gd who created you.

Only God could ask such a big thing from us, because he created us and gave us guidelines for living our lives.

Without this Divine mandate to treat others equally - in other words, if a human asked us to do this - we might never dream it is possible.

So why does God care how we treat people? As we saw at the beginning of this unit the pasuk "You shall be holy; for I the Lord your God am holy" teaches us that a fundamental idea in

Judaism is to bring holiness into the world. How do we do that? "Love your neighbor" - be sensitive to others, for that is a holy act.

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