We just tend to interpret commands so individualistically.

What's up, guys? Welcome back to Five Men of Fatherhood.

So you've probably heard a lot about Deuteronomy Six. There's a lot there about family that we like to talk about.

It's what Jesus called the greatest commandment when he

was asked, which is which of the commandments is the greatest. And the way that we typically read that

is love the Lord, your God, with all of your soul, with all of your heart, with all of your soul,

with all of your strength. This is Deuteronomy 6.5. And recently I was reading this verse in a translation called The Complete Jewish Bible.

This is by David Stern. And basically what he's trying to do in this, in this translation,

is find out areas where a typical English speaker might just come to the wrong conclusion,

particularly about the Hebrew, right? And so he translated the

greatest commandment, love Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your

resources. And I thought, oh, yes, that makes a lot of sense. Because, you know, when I think

about love Lord of God with all your strength, I really think about he's talking about maybe

energy, something physical. Like that's what always comes to my mind. Yeah. But when he said all your

resources, he's trying to say the way a Hebrew reader would have interpreted that Hebrew word for

strength, they would have thought about their muchness or all their, their, all the stuff that helps them exert any level of power on

the world. And they primarily sort of saw that through the lens of their resources.

Which is interesting because that is primarily a family that turns this element of the

Great Commandment kind of more into a family

command, if that makes sense. When I think about love and Lord with all of your heart, I feel

you know, like maybe individual or with all of your soul, right, that feels pretty individual.

But with all your resources, man, I don't own anything by myself. All of my resources I own

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