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Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz: “How is it possible to love a sinner?”

How is it possible to love a sinner?

One of the Hasidic answers is derived from the verse “Love thy fellow as thyself.”

A person is to love others just as he loves himself despite his intimate knowledge of his own imperfections and flaws and even though he may simultaneously hate himself for them.

—Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz