Not Your Average Jonah

Baby, don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more. (Y'all know I had to do it.) We've just passed the Jewish holiday of Tu B'Av, often referred to as the Jewish Valentine's Day. However, unlike Valentine's Day, many people celebrate Tu B'Av as being about all kinds of love, not just romantic love. So I thought I'd take a moment to talk about the shapes love takes and what it means to love outside of a romantic context. The ancient Greeks differentiated six specific types of love. T

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