The Meaning and Importance of Love Your Neighbor

In Leviticus 19, Jesus quotes the command to love your neighbor and hate your enemy. This was a raging debate in Jesus' day about the meaning and implications of this command in the Torah. If you just look at like the verse that Jesus quoted and you read it in context, who's your neighbor? So it's your people. Community member, fellow Israelite, that's the fairly significant clue right there. Do not pervert justice. Don't show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich. Judge your neighbor fairly. Challenge your neighbor frankly when they do evil so that you don't share in their guilt.