<P> At the turn of the eras, the Jewish rabbis were discussing the scope of the meaning of Leviticus 19: 18 and 19: 34 extensively: </P> <P> The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as one of your citizens; you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I the LORD am your God . </P> <P> Commentators summed up foreigners (= Samaritans), proselytes (=' strangers who resides with you') (Rabbi Akiva, bQuid 75b) or Jews (Rabbi Gamaliel, yKet 3, 1; 27a) to the scope of the meaning . </P> <P> On the verse, "Love your fellow as yourself," the classic commentator Rashi quotes from Torat Kohanim, an early Midrashic text regarding the famous dictum of Rabbi Akiva: "Love your fellow as yourself--Rabbi Akiva says this is a great principle of the Torah ." </P>

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