“Love your fellow as yourself” —Leviticus.
“This is a major principle of the Torah” —Rabbi Akiva.
“A soul enters this world for seventy or eighty years just to do a favor for another” —the Baal Shem Tov.

Perhaps nothing has been as detrimental to the Jewish people as the modern idea that Judaism is just a religion. We are much more than a religion; 

we are a single soul radiating into many bodies, bonding them as one.

A healthy body is one where every part works in harmony.

A healthy Jewish people is one big, caring family where each individual loves the other like his or her own self. 

Where one Jew faces rough times and the others hold his hands. 

Where one meets good fortune and all of us celebrate. 

Where no one is labeled or alienated for his or her beliefs, behaviors or background. 

Where each runs to do an act of kindness for the other, and shuts his eyes and ears to the other’s shame.

Follow Hillel’s golden rule: “If you wouldn’t like it done to you, don’t do it to the other guy.”

Love for those closest to home nurtures love for the extended family of humanity, and from there, love for all G‑d’s creatures. 

But if love doesn’t start at home, from where will it come? Practically speaking . . .

1. Start each morning by saying, “I accept upon myself the mitzvah to love my fellow Jew like myself.”
2. Follow Hillel’s golden rule: “If you wouldn’t like it done to you, don't do it to the other guy.”
3. Speak only good about fellow Jews. Don’t even listen to a bad word, unless some real benefit will come through your conversation.
4. Care for your fellow Jew’s property and possessions as you care for your own.
5. Always be on the lookout for opportunities to do another Jew a favor.
6. Bring Jewish people together. Tear down the false barriers of age, affiliation and ethnicity.
7. Invite other Jews to share in the most precious thing we have, our Torah and mitzvahs.

Cover your eyes with your right hand and say:Hear, O Israel, the L-rd is our G‑d, the L-rd is One.Recite the following verse in an undertone:

Blessed be the name of the glory of His kingdom forever and ever.

You shall love the L-rd your G‑d with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might. And these words which I command you today shall be upon your heart. 

You shall teach them thoroughly to your children, 

and you shall speak of them when you sit in your house and when you walk on the road, when you lie down and when you rise. 

You shall bind them as a sign upon your hand, and they shall be for a reminder between your eyes. 

And you shall write them upon the doorposts of your house and upon your gates.

And it will be, if you will diligently obey My commandments which I enjoin upon you this day, 

to love the L-rd your G‑d and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul, 

I will give rain for your land at the proper time, 

the early rain and the late rain, and you will gather in your grain, your wine and your oil. 

And I will give grass in your fields for your cattle, and you will eat and be sated. 

Take care lest your heart be lured away, and you turn astray and worship alien gods and bow down to them. 

For then the L-rd's wrath will flare up against you, and He will close the heavens so that there will be no rain and the earth will not yield its produce, and you will swiftly perish from the good land which the L-rd gives you. 

Therefore, place these words of Mine upon your heart and upon your soul, and bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for a reminder between your eyes. 

You shall teach them to your children, to speak of them when you sit in your house and when you walk on the road, when you lie down and when you rise.

 And you shall inscribe them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates - 

so that your days and the days of your children may be prolonged on the land which the L-rd swore to your fathers to give to them for as long as the heavens are above the earth.

The L-rd spoke to Moses, saying: Speak to the children of Israel and tell them to make for themselves fringes on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, 

and to attach a thread of blue on the fringe of each corner. 

They shall be to you as tzizit, and you shall look upon them and remember all the commandments of the L-rd and fulfill them, and you will not follow after your heart and after your eyes by which you go astray - 

so that you may remember and fulfill all My commandments and be holy to your G‑d. 

I am the L-rd your G‑d who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your G‑d; I, the L-rd, 

am your G‑d. True.

 Cover your eyes with your right hand and say:
Sh'ma Yis-ra-eil, A-do-nai E-lo-hei-nu, A-do-nai E-chad.

Whisper:
Ba-ruch sheim k'vod mal-chu-to l'o-lam va-ed. 

 V'a-hav-ta eit A-do-nai E-lo-he-cha,
B'chawl l'va-v'cha,
u-v'chawl naf-sh'cha,
u-v'chawl m'o-de-cha.
V'ha-yu ha-d'va-rim ha-ei-leh,
A-sher a-no-chi m'tsa-v'cha ha-yom, al l'va-ve-cha.
V'shi-nan-tam l'-va-ne-cha, v'di-bar-ta bam
b'shiv-t'cha b'vei-te-cha,
uv-lech-t'cha va-de-rech,
u-v'shawch-b'cha uv-ku-me-cha.
Uk-shar-tam l'ot al ya-de-cha,
v'ha-yu l'to-ta-fot bein ei-ne-cha.
Uch-tav-tam, al m'zu-zot bei-te-cha, u-vish-a-re-cha.  V'ha-ya, im sha-mo-a tish-m'u el mits-vo-tai
a-sher a-no-chi m'tsa-veh et-chem ha-yom
l'a-ha-va et A-do-nai E-lo-hei-chem
ul-awv-do b'chawl l'vav-chem, u-v'chawl naf-sh'chem,
V'na-ta-ti m'tar ar-ts'chem b'i-to, yo-reh u-mal-kosh,
v'a-saf-ta d'ga-ne-cha,
v'ti-ro-sh'cha v'yits-ha-re-cha.
V'na-ta-ti ei-sev b'sa-d'cha liv-hem-te-cha,
v'a-chal-ta v'sa-va-'ta.
Hi-sha-m'ru la-chem pen yif-te l'vav-chem, v'sar-tem,
va-a-vad-tem E-lo-him a-chei-rim, v'hish-ta-cha-vi-tem la-hem.
V'cha-rah af A-do-nai ba-chem, v'a-tsar et ha-sha-ma-yim,
v'lo yi-h'yeh ma-tar, v'ha-a-da-ma lo ti-tein et y'vu-la,
va-a-vad-tem m'hei-ra mei-al ha-a-rets ha-to-va
a-sher A-do-nai no-tein la-chem.
V'sam-tem et d'vara ei-leh, al l'vav-chem v'al naf-sh'chem,
uk-shar-tem o-tam l'ot al yed-chem,
v'ha-yu l'to-ta-fot bein ei-nei-chem.
V'li-mad-tem o-tam et b'nei-chem, l'da-beir bam
b'shiv-t'cha b'vei-te-cha, uv-lech-t'cha va-de-rech
u-v'shawch-b'cha uv-ku-me-cha.
Uch-tav-tam, al m'zu-zot bei-te-cha, u-vish-a-re-cha.
L'ma-an yir-bu y'mei-chem, vi-mei v'nei-chem, al ha-a-da-ma
a-sher nish-ba A-do-nai la-a-vo-tei-chem, la-teit la-hem
ki-mei ha-sha-ma-yim al ha-a-rets. Va-yo-meir A-do-nai el Mo-she lei-mor:
Da-beir el b'nei Yis-ra-eil, v'a-mar-ta a-lei-hem
v'a-su la-hem tsi-tsit, al kan-fei vig-dei-hem l'do-ro-tam,
v'na-t'nu al tsi-tsit ha-ka-naf p'til t'chei-let.
V'ha-ya la-chem l'tsi-tsit, ur-i-tem o-to
uz-char-tem et kawl mits-vot A-do-nai, va-a-si-tem o-tam,
v'lo ta-tu-ru a-cha-rei l'vav-chem,
v'a-cha-rei ei-nei-chem
a-sher a-tem zo-nim a-cha-rei-hem,
L'ma-an tiz-k'ru, va-a-si-tem et kawl mits-vo-tai
vi-h'yi-tem k'do-shim lei-lo-hei-chem.
A-ni A-do-nai E-lo-hei-chem,
a-sher ho-tsei-ti et-chem mei-e-rets Mits-ra-yim
li-h'yot la-chem lei-lo-him;
A-ni A-do-nai E-lo-hei-chem… Emet