The OT says to love your neighbor and God. Fine. This is love as a verb. But the NT 'totalizes' it by making it a noun: God is love- Mark. This is threatening to me because it seems to me that this is what we (i.e. most humans) really worship (i.e. 'LUV' / All you need is Love). So the gematria synchronicity (I can't see it as a coincidence because it's a 1 in 1600 chance) in these MOST key verses (they tell you what God is!) hits home to me like a snake in the Garden BECAUSE the NT puts this thing we all REALLY worship at the #1 position (as a noun: 'God is Love'- Mark) and the OT puts love in the #2 position (as a verb). I would like to see myself as one who only worships God, but when I am really honest with myself, I am just a Beatle, and thus a Christian, and thus in essence an idolater.
Oh, I forgot to add that Hashem's name adds up to 26. So echad ("God is one"- the calling card of OT/Judaism) and ahava ("God is love"- the calling card of NT/Christianity) both are 13 and together they equal 26. This is what I mean by a real challenge to my faith because this screams out to me that the OT and the NT are working together to come to some conclusion. And that's what troubles me: that this implies that we need the NT/Christianity to 'conclude' something.
You should be reassured then because your fear and feeling of being threatened are all based on inaccuracies!
1. In the Torah, love is a noun and a verb! So you don't need any other text -- the concept is complete without any supplement!
2. The "gematria synchronicity" is not 1 in 1600. The chance that any two words share numerical value can't be computed as odds because distribution of letters and methods of computation create unpredictable variables!
3. These are not "Most" key verses according to Judaism. Therefore they aren't subject to being undermined by other texts!
4. We don't worship love. Apparently the mistake you make is (and this took hours of internet research) confusing the lyrics to a song (there was a group called "The Beatles" and they had a song which included the line "all you need is love") with theologically relevant biblical texts. So since that isn't a true statement, your worries engendered by it are baseless.
4a. I looked up the members of said band and saw no one by your name, so you are not a Beatle! Also, I can't find anything in various reference texts which equates membership in The Beatles with identity as a Christian. Good thing you dodged that.
5. You are worried because Hashem's name adds up to 26. Fortunately, only one of the various labels we use for God adds up to 26! But since there are many names for God, and almost all DON'T add up to 26, any conclusion you note is statistically insignificant. Whew...
6. Your grammatical confusion between the statement "God is one" and "God is love" -- in the former, "one" is a predicate adjective and in the second, "love" is a predicate nominative. Since they are disparate grammatical forms, they cannot supplement each other out of need. At best, they could complement each other ("the president is tall" and "the president is Fred" can approach the same concept "president" in two unrelated ways, but neither needs the other).
Having thusly defused your fears, I have reaffirmed your complete faith in and commitment to modern, Pharisaic Judaism. You have no more questions and concerns and can completely reject all of Christianity and its texts and beliefs. I await your next post, in which you openly and explicitly deny anything and everything Christian as insidious lies and deception.
Praise be!
