SW04: Deepening Love - Classical Sources

 And God created the human in God’s image, in the image of God, God created the human; male and female God created them. And God created the human [Adam] in God’s image, in the image of God, God created the human; male and female God created them.  And God blessed them, and God said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.

Genesis 1:27-28 

 

The Lord God said, “It is not good for the human to be alone; I will make a fitting helper….” 

Genesis 2:18

So God cast a deep sleep upon the man; and, while he slept, He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that spot. And God fashioned the rib that God had taken from the man into a woman; and God brought her to the man. Then the man said, “This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh…..”                     

Genesis 2:21-23 

 

Isaac had just come back from the vicinity of Beer-lahai-roi, for he was settled in the region of the Negeb. And Isaac went out walking in the field toward evening and, looking up, he saw camels approaching. Raising her eyes, Rebekah saw Isaac. She alighted from the camel and said to the servant, “Who is that man walking in the field toward us?” And the servant said, “That is my master.” So she took her veil and covered herself. The servant told Isaac all the things that he had done. Isaac then brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah, and he took Rebekah as his wife. Isaac loved her…. 

Genesis 24:62-67 

 

They heard the sound of God moving about in the garden at the breezy time of day; and the man and his wife hid from God among the trees of the garden. God called out to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”  He replied, “I heard the sound of You in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.” Then God asked, “Who told you that you were naked?  Did you eat of the tree from which I had forbidden you to eat?”  The man said, “The woman You put at my side—she gave me of the tree, and I ate.”  And God said to the woman, “What is this you have done!”  

Genesis 3:8-13

 

Any love that depends on a specific cause, when that cause is gone, the love is gone; but if it does not depend on a specific cause, it will never cease. 

Pirkei Avot 5:19