Relevant Verses: Deuteronomy 6:4, 5; 10:12

Theme: All You Need Is Love

Leading Question: How do you love God?

The book of Deuteronomy is saturated with the language of love. The Hebrew root a-h-v for “love” appears in Deuteronomy 23 times. Deuteronomy is a book about societal beatitude and the transformative power of love.

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks explains, nothing could be more misleading and unfair than the contrast that is so often drawn between the New Testament as promoting a religion of love and forgiveness and the Old Testament as speaking of a religion of law and retribution. Forgiveness is born in the ...