(I) LETTER TO KEHILLAH IN CORINTH 13
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If in the leshonot of Bnei Adam and malachim I speak, but I do not have ahavah, I have become only a sounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
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And if I have nevu'ah and have da'as of all sodot and all da'as, and if I have all emunah so as to remove mountains, but ahavah I do not have, I am nothing.
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And if I'm a marbitz tzedaka and give all I possess in gemilut chasadim and if I give my body al kiddush Hashem for sereifah (death by burning), but ahavah I do not have, I have gained nothing.
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Dan 3:28
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Ahavah suffers long; ahavah is kind; ahavah does not have kinah; ahavah does not brag; ahavah is not puffed up in ga'avah (conceit, pride);
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ahavah does not behave shamelessly; ahavah does not in anochiyut insist on its own way; ahavah is not touchy and vindictive, keeping a record of wrongs.
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Zech 8:17
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Ahavah does not find simcha in evil, but rejoices in HaEmes.
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Ahavah covers all things, believes all things, has tikvah (hope), even savlanut, for all things.
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Prov 10:12
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Ahavah never fails. However, divrei nevu'ah will be abolished; leshonot will cease; da'as will come to an end.
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For we have da'as in part, and we have divrei nevu'ah is part.
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But when shleimah (completion) comes, the teilvaiz (partial) will disappear.
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When I was a yeled, I used to speak like one, think like one, reason like one. But when I became mevugar (mature), I put away kinderyohrn.
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Ps 131:2
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For still we see through a mirror indistinctly. But then, distinctly, panim el panim. Now I have da'as only in part; then I will have da'as fully, even as also Hashem had full da'as of me.
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in the Olam Haba
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Job 26:14; 36:26; Gn 32:30; Job 19:26
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But now remain emunah, tikvah, and ahavah, these shalosh (three). And the greatest of these is ahavah.