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By loving our fellow person, we learn to love God; and through loving God and following His rituals, we can achieve love of our fellow human beings. From this perspective, the human-God and human-human laws do not stand as opposing forces but rather as perfect complements, leading to an increased ability for us all to help achieve unity between heaven and earth.

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Rabbi Avi Weiss is founding president of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah and senior rabbi of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale. His memoir of the Soviet Jewry movement, “Open Up the Iron Door,” was recently published by Toby Press.