Published: 13 September 2015
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Refugee crisis: ‘Love the stranger because you were once strangers’ calls us now - Jonathan Sacks - The Guardian 06.09.15
“I used to think that the most important line in the Bible was ‘Love your neighbour as yourself’. Then I realised that it is easy to love your neighbour because he or she is usually quite like yourself. What is hard is to love the stranger, one whose colour, culture or creed is different from yours. That is why the command, ‘Love the stranger because you were once strangers’, resonates so often throughout the Bible. It is summoning us now.” A summons also to Australia and our own Jewish community.
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