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True love

שו"תTrue love
שאל לפני 3 שנים

Is it possible to love someone without benefiting from it?
I was told that the husband's role is to be a giver and not to receive even emotionally.
But love is because something about her attracts me,
Is there love above reason and reason?
And what if I need her love?


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In my opinion, it is absolutely possible. The connection with a person or a woman is made through his/her external appearances and characteristics, but through them you create a connection with the person himself/herself (the possessor of the characteristics). This connection does not have to be based on interest. In fact, a connection for the sake of interest is not worthy of the name of love, but rather lust (this is what you wrote that something about her attracts you. This is lust and not love). Love by definition is a connection without interest. The extensions on this are Don Yehuda Abarbanel – Conversations on Love, and Jose Ortega y Gast – Five Essays on Love. This is a solution to what the commentators of our forefather Jacob found difficult, "and they were in his eyes as a few days in his love for her." The way of the world is that if you love someone, every day seems like an eternity to you, and here it says the opposite. And the excuse: This is true when a person desires someone (wants to achieve them), and this means that he loves himself. But Jacob loved Rachel and not himself. See also my column 120 on altruistic acts, which is linked here. I don't know if you call this love above reason and knowledge. It is above interest, regardless of knowledge and reason. But this is ordinary love. What is not like this is not love. See also Rambam, p. 10, answer 5a-b, where he defines work out of love as doing the truth because it is truth (and not for the sake of interest).

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