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DA32
Empathizing & Sympathizing with Our Neighbor’s Joys and Sorrows

DA32

We are to empathize and sympathize with our neighbor’s joys and sorrows.

Category: Neighbours & Brothers

Type: Positive

Form: Explicit

Source dataset: New Testament

Uniqueness: Not unique

Classical commandment: No

New Covenant Literal Application

Applies to Person Categories: Everyone

Literal Application: mandated

More explanation about New Covenant Literal Application

The New Covenant Literal Application Code (NCLA) is an interpretive guide used by the authors to indicate which person categories a mitzvah applies to, and at what level of literal compliance.

It combines person categories such as Jewish, K'rov Yisrael, and Gentile, together with male/female distinctions and an application level such as mandated, recommended, optional, or prohibited.

This code reflects the authors' interpretive opinion and is provided for prayerful consideration. On this page, the technical code is summarized into plain language to help new readers understand it more easily.

Detailed codes: GFm - Gentile female, mandated | GMm - Gentile male, mandated | JFm - Jewish female, mandated | JMm - Jewish male, mandated | KFm - K'rovat Yisrael female, mandated | KMm - K'rov Yisrael male, mandated

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Bible references

Key NT Scriptures
  • 1 Peter 3:8
  • Philippians 2:1-2
  • Romans 12:15
Supportive NT Scriptures
  • Colossians 3:12
  • 1 Corinthians 9:22
  • 1 Corinthians 12:26
  • Hebrews 4:15
  • John 11:33-35
  • Luke 6:36
  • Mark 3:5
  • Matthew 9:36
Supportive OT Scriptures
  • Daniel 1:9
  • Job 2:11
  • Psalms 34:19
  • Zechariah 7:9

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Commentary

Rabbi Michael Rudolph

Empathy and sympathy are different. Empathizing is imagining ourselves in the joyful or sorrowful place of another, and feeling what we imagine he or she is feeling. Sympathizing is cognitively understanding the sorrowful predicament of another, and wishing it were not so. Both empathy and sympathy require having godly compassion which is the subject of Mitzvah #AA10.


Copyright © Michael Rudolph and Daniel C. Juster, The Law of Messiah - Torah from a New Covenant Perspective - Volume 3

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