e bible goes on to show many cases of this type of love. An excellent example being the love of David and Yohonatan, making it seem as a divide concept. Over here, man is required to love God. In conjunction with that it is written in Genesis, that man was created in God’s image. Maybe what that is trying to say, is that we should love all men as we love God. If society truly felt this, there would be no wars, no hatred, it would be a perfect world. Maimonides goes into speaking about loving ones neighbor. This commandment says that we should love our friends as we would ourselves. In these times, many people will go into counseling due to problems of remaining in a healthy relationship. Maimonides says that by this love, one should love by having compassion and well wishes to others as he would unto himself. Psychologically speaking, a good deal of interrelational problems may stem from how people feel about themselves. We can use this as a therapeutic route to solving ones problem. It is one of the goals in life to go through loving relationships. Of course by love I’m not referring to a Freudian based sexually driven Id feeling. After all, plenty of people go through life never having had sex at all, but have had loving relationships. Priests, especially the Pope himself are examples of this. They have given up sexual activity for a greater relationship with God. Even without the sex, they are still able to have loving relationships between fellow men. Working with the homeless was probably my best experience in dealing with people receiving no love. They were lonely in a utilitarian sense of the word. Quite surprisingly though, many of the clients were not lonely in the existential manner. Whether it was good or a place for them to turn to, this was a place for them, it was their refuge. My job was to assist, at times when it was utilitarian love that they had a problem of dealing with. After their family and friends th...
