Moishe Lieb Sassover repeated a conversation he overheard between two peasants, while they were drinking.
“Do you love me?” one asked.
“If you love me,” the first one continued, “do you know my needs or my wants?”
“How should I know” was the answer.
“Since you don’t know my needs,” the first peasant retorted, “how can you say that you love me?”
“From this conversation you can learn," the Sassover Rabbi said, “that to love one’s fellow means to know what he is lacking and to share his needs and sufferings.”
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