{"id":729,"date":"2021-05-27T15:52:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T18:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/wordpress\/?p=729"},"modified":"2021-05-27T15:52:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T18:52:05","slug":"the-true-meaning-of-love-and-humility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/2021\/05\/27\/the-true-meaning-of-love-and-humility\/","title":{"rendered":"THE TRUE MEANING OF LOVE AND HUMILITY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Hasidic Rabbi, Levi Yitzhak of the Ukraine, said that he had discovered the true meaning of love and humility from a pair of drunken friends in a country tavern. While chatting with the owner of the tavern, the rabbi saw the men embracing and declaring their love for one another.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Suddenly Ivan said to his companion, \u201cPeter, tell me what hurts me!\u201d Sobered by such a startling remark, Peter replied, \u201cHow do I know what hurts you?\u201d Ivan\u2019s answer was immediate, \u201cIf you don\u2019t know what hurts me, how can you say you love me?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Through their interchange, the two companions underscored the fact that the true humility which issues forth in love is not fostered by navel-gazing but by bending down to look up into the eyes of another<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>. From that humble position, the hopes and needs, the hurts and fears of the other are readily perceived; from that position of humility, love can be offered and service can be rendered, not with an air of condescension but with the warmth of compassion.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hasidic Rabbi, Levi Yitzhak of the Ukraine, said that he had discovered the true meaning of love and humility from a pair of drunken [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":730,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}