‘Greater love hath no man…’: The Jewish Point of View of Self-Sacrifice

Reprinted from Judaism, 6, 1 (1957), in Contemporary Jewish Ethics, ed. Menachem Kellner, Sanhedrin Press, 1978.’Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.’ (1) This teaching has long been considered as belonging to the ripest fruits of Christianity. It is believed that in a man’s capacity…