ahavas yisroel

Pronunciations

ahavat yisrael (ah-hah-VAHT yihs-rah-EL) listen
ahavas yisroel (ah-hah-VAHS yihs-RUH-el) listen

Definitions

  • n. Love of one's fellow Jew.

Example Sentences

  • "[T]he mitzvah of Ahavas Yisroel, “Mitzvas asei le’ehov kol echad v’echad mi’Yisroel kegufo”, is a positive commandment to love every Jew in the same manner that we love ourselves. This mitzvah is a klal gadol ba’Torah (fundamental principle of Torah), and furthermore, it is the yesod...of our Torah, upon which the entire Torah is based." (source)

  • "His Ahavas Yisroel, his love of doing mitzvos and teaching others, and his love of Torah are something each of us can take to heart and try to improve on." (source)

  • "In 1976, the Lubavitcher Rebbe added the mitzvah of Ahavat Yisrael (love for a fellow Jew) to his “mitzvah campaign”—a shortlist of practical actions he proposed with the goal of encouraging every Jew, regardless of his or her degree of religious observance, to do a G‑dly deed." (source)

  • "Those guys who volunteered for the Entebbe Raid showed such ahavat yisrael." (Glinert)

  • "That play had such anti-Semitic overtones; the characters were such stereotypes. For a Jewish writer, he certainly has no ahavat Yisra'el."

Languages of Origin

  • Textual Hebrew
  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • TH אהבת ישראל ahavat yisra'el 'love of Israel' > Y אַהבֿת־ישׂראל aaves-yisroel

    • Who Uses This

      • Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education

      Regions

      • North America
      • Great Britain
      • South Africa

      Dictionaries

      • The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).

      Alternative Spellings

      ahavat yisrael, ahaves yisrael, ahavas yisrael, ahavat yisroel, ahaves yisroel, ahavat yisra'el, ahaves yisra'el, ahavas yisra'el, ahavat yisro'el, ahaves yisro'el, ahavas yisro'el

Notes

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