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“Love your neighbor as yourself” is one of Jesus’ most famous quotations, but it often does not get the depth of understanding it deserves. We understand this command today as simple, trite, and easy, but Jesus understood this as a kind of dedication to others that would not just take a retweet, a post, or even a two-hour service project—it would take up our entire habit of mind. When we follow the context of this teaching from Jesus, we find ourselves in the strange book of Leviticus, discovering that this is not an isolated, trite command, but a summation of many commands that appropriately demand our attention.