{"id":11256,"date":"2026-09-01T10:13:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T08:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torinoebraica.it\/senza-categoria\/love-in-its-many-forms\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T10:13:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T08:13:44","slug":"love-in-its-many-forms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torinoebraica.it\/en\/articles\/love-in-its-many-forms\/","title":{"rendered":"Love in its many forms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Love\u2014the theme of this year\u2019s European Day of Jewish Culture<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\u2014is a concept that runs through all of Jewish thought.
\nLeviticus 19:18 states, \u201cLove your neighbor as yourself\u201d<\/em>\u2014a precept defined in the Talmud as a fundamental principle of the Torah.
\nIn Judaism, however, love<\/em> is conceived not merely as a feeling but as a system of relationships binding the individual to their neighbor, family, study, and the Lord\u2014and the Lord to the individual, animals, and all of nature\u2014with each relationship manifesting this love in a distinct way.
\nThe daily routine within our Community guides us on a journey through all these forms of love.
\nAs happens every year, a selection of short excerpts\u2014drawn from biblical texts and other sources\u2014displayed on panels attached to the Synagogue\u2019s gate will illustrate the various expressions of this precept.
\nThese quotations reveal the different types of love that are recognized.
\n\u201cTwo are better than one (\u2026) if they fall, one lifts the other up (\u2026) if two sleep together, they keep each other warm\u201d (Qohelet 4:9\u201312)
\n\u201cMany waters cannot quench love, nor can rivers sweep it away\u201d <\/em>(Song of Songs 8:6)
\n\u201cYou shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength\u201d <\/em>(Deut. 6:4\u20135)
\n\u201cIf you come across a bird\u2019s nest in a tree or on the ground, with chicks or eggs, and the mother is brooding over the chicks or the eggs, you shall not take the mother along with the young\u201d<\/em> (Deut. 22:6\u20137).
\n\u201cThe law of love for one\u2019s neighbor encompasses both the Israelite and the non-Israelite\u201d<\/em> (Hayim Vital, Sha\u2019are Qedushah, 1-5)
\n\u201c\u2026Let the love of your fellow be as dear to you as your own\u201d<\/em> (Pirkei Avot, 1:15)
\n\u201cLove the stranger, for you too were strangers in the land of Egypt\u201d <\/em>(Deut. 10:19)<\/p>\n

At 10:30 AM, Israeli poet Sarai Shavit, together with Sarah Kaminski, will open the day\u2019s events with a lecture on the evolution of the concept of love in Jewish poetry and the role of the body as the origin of poetic language.
\nFrom 11:30 AM to 5:00 PM, visitors can take free group tours of Turin\u2019s synagogues and the permanent exhibition of Piedmontese Jewish ritual art.
\nAlso from 11:30 AM to 5:00 PM, the exhibition “A Sublime Song for the Voice of the Groom and the Bride: Wedding Poems from the Terracini Archive” <\/em>will be open to the public.
\nAt 5:30 PM, a roundtable discussion titled “Midrashim and the Ambivalence of Affection: Love and Disaffection in Couple Relationships” <\/em>will take place, featuring Ruth Mussi, Giuseppe D\u2019Agostino, and Sarah Randaccio.
\nThose interested may join a guided walk through the buildings that once formed the city\u2019s ghetto; the meeting point is at Piazza Carlina (Piazza Carlo Emanuele II) No. 19 at 11:00 AM.
\nAs it does every year, ADEI WIZO will set up a stall at the Community Center featuring Judaica items, Jewish cookbooks, novels, sweets, and challah bread available for purchase\u2014demonstrating how love for holidays, tradition, and people can be expressed through cooking as well.
\nInformation stands regarding Jewish community associations will be located in front of the synagogue.
\nThe activities will continue over the following days with a performance-concert by Miriam Camerini on September 8 at 9:00 PM<\/strong> at the Centro Sociale\u2014focusing on the theme of the Dybbuk and the legendary figure of Shloyme Ansky\u2014and a literary-musical roundtable on September 9 at 5:00 PM<\/strong> dedicated to the centenary of Yehuda Amichai, a central figure in modern poetry, to be held at the National University Library of Turin (Piazza Carlo Alberto 3).
\nWe are all invited to attend these open days in large numbers\u2014events rich in opportunities for reflection and learning that will pleasantly guide us through the various aspects of this important principle in Jewish thought.<\/p>\n

Ori Sierra<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Love\u2014the theme of this year\u2019s European Day of Jewish Culture\u2014is a concept that runs through all of Jewish thought. Leviticus 19:18 states, \u201cLove your neighbor as yourself,\u201d a precept defined in the Talmud as a fundamental principle of the Torah. By Ori Sierra. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10986,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torinoebraica.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torinoebraica.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torinoebraica.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torinoebraica.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torinoebraica.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/torinoebraica.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torinoebraica.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torinoebraica.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torinoebraica.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torinoebraica.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}