One Rosh Hashanah a woman I knew intended to invite a guest over for a meal. Due to her busy schedule she forgot to. On Rosh Hashanah she saw her desired guest going home from shul with someone else. She ran over and created a scene by insisting that the guest should come to her home because she had intended to invite her it was her חסד (kindness) to do. After much impassioned pleading she had her way.
My wife once said to me that the idea of doing חסד (kindness) without אהבה (love) was completely foreign to her until she entered the Jewish community.
Need I say more?
Only when people truly understand the love of ' ה (G-d) for us, and integrate within themselves the knowledge that Creation was an act of love, will they then be able to truly embrace the love of others as connecting to the most fundamental force of Creation. Until then much of what passes for love and kindness, wonderful as it is in
many cases, will still be superficial.
The Temple's destruction came because of שנאת חנם (unwarranted hatred), we can only rectify that with אהבת חנם (unwarranted love), such as that which G-d has for us.
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