Episode 72: Do unto others (part 2)

The Old Testament contains 39 books, many of which are quite different from each other in style and content. Who would dare to distill all of that wondrous complexity down to a sentence or two? As we’ve seen, Rabbi Hillel would, and so would Jesus. With both the Golden Rule and what he elsewhere called the two greatest commandments, Jesus summarized the heart of God’s intent for his people. In this episode, I suggest that the Golden Rule needs to be kept together with the command to love our neighbor as ourselves.