So What Does It Mean to Love Your Neighbor?

A lesson in social justice from Leviticus.

In Matthew 22:36-39, a lawyer challenges Jesus asking him, “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?”

Jesus answers him saying, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself” (ESV).

The first verse Jesus quotes is from Deuteronomy 6:5, but the second is from Leviticus. Keep reading