Ask the rabbi. GAMBLING PROCEEDS FOR EDUCATION Q. If an organisation makes money from gambling facilities, is it halachically permitted to use some of the proceeds to fund Jewish education? A. The first question is whether people should be gambling at all. Jewish teaching distinguishes between professional or compulsive gambling, occasional gambling and gambling for…
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When the sages, in our double Torah portion of
Acharei Mot-Kedoshim this week, addressed the classic Jewish commandment to âLove your fellow as yourselfâ (Leviticus 19:18), they wondered: How is it possible to require that we can love others as much as we love ourselves?Â
Rabbi Baruch Halevi Epstein (1860-1941), best known for his commentary âTorah Temimah (The Perfect Torah),â based on a teaching of Maimonides, says we are enjoined to treat our fellow human beings with honor and respect. Maimonides writes: âEach man is commanded to love each and every one of Israel as himself, as the verse states.âÂ
In âThe Metsudah: Chumash/Rashiâ by Rabbi Avrohom Davis, the translation follows virtually every other ChumashI am familiar with, but it adds, like Maimonides, âYou shall love your fellow [Jew] as yourself.â This begs the question: Does the Torah confine this love to just Jews or all of humankind? Â