Real Love Isn’t Butterflies 24/7 - Rabbi YY Jacobson

Love does not mean that I'm always experiencing this most amazing, thrilling experience around the other person. Hopefully, that will happen, but it's not a given. The numerical value of the Hebrew word for love, aava, is 13. The same exact numerical value of the word ead, which means one. What love really means in Judaism is that we recognize that there is an essential oneness between us. And it's that oneness that we want to build on. Even if I'm in a bad mood and even if I'm shut down and even if I'm having a very stressful and overwhelming day, we are still essentially