"And you shall love your fellow Jew like yourself"
The Torah commands us to love our fellow Jew like we love ourselves. This is one of the most important mitzvot, because many commandments depend on it. For example, if one loves his fellow Jew then he would not steal from him, or hurt him in any other way.
A non Jew once came to the great sage Hillel saying, "I wish to convert on the condition that you teach me the entire Torah 'while I stand on one foot' - 'in a very short time'." Hillel accepted him as a convert and then told him, "What is hateful to you do not do to others, this is the entire Torah, everything else is commentary, go and learn."
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