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Love
Love needs to fill the heart for everything.
Love for all of creation must precede everything else. After, one can love all of humanity; after, one can love (the nation of) Israel, which includes everything, since Israel is destined to refine all of creation.
All of these loves, are loves which require action: to love them, to do for them good, to cause them to exalt, to raise on all of them love of God, which is a love in action, which has nothing else included in it, but that the heart should be filled with this most exalted happiness.
Rabbi Avraham Yitschak HaKohen Kook
El HaMidot, Ahava
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26 May in History
In 1948, at the United Nations, the Arabs indicated a willingness to stop the fighting on condition that the Jews would regard the proclamation of statehood as null and void and that no further Jewish immigration would be accepted. Abba Eban, who at the time was a liaison to the United Nations, and renowned for his speaking ability, responded; “If the Arab states want peace with Israel, they can have it. If they want war, they have that, too. But whether they want peace or war, they could have only with the sovereign independent state of Israel.”
13 Sivan in History
Today in 1313 BCE was the day that Moses entered the cloud that was resting on Mt. Sinai and entered before God’s presence.
“Moses went up to the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain…for six days. On the seventh day God called to Moses from within the cloud… And Moses came within the cloud, and he went up to the top of the mountain, and Moses was upon the mountain forty days and forty nights” (Exodus 24:15-18).
The Jewish Almanac 