Harold M. Schulweis
Rabbi

March 10, 2005
Mr. Nasser Zaghi, Founder
Love is the Solution
14542 Yale Court
Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
Dear Mr. Zaghi:

I was deeply impressed by the passionate idealism and realism that motivates your work on behalf of peace and love in our trembling and uncertain world. Every faith that 1 know of bases itself upon a celebrated verse in the Jewish Bible. In Leviticus 19:18 we read, "Love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord."

We love ourselves. We know what it means to be afraid and to be terrorized. We love ourselves and know what it means to go without food and water. Because we know ourselves, we know the "other." Each "other," like ourselves, is created in the image of God and each must be protected from poverty and destruction.

Mr. Zaghi, the Hebrew word for love is "ahavah." According to the mystical tradition, the numerical equivalent of each letter of "ahavah" is thirteen. Thirteen times two is twenty-six, which is the name of God ("YHWH"). With two individuals who love each other, and when two peoples love each other, when two faiths love each other, there we find its goodness of God in this world. If the world is to be saved from dissolution, then love is indeed the solution. Many blessings on your sacred work.

Cordially,

Harold M. Schulweis
Rabbi

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