To feel loved is to feel trust.
To feel loved is to know that you have a safe relationship, one which even your greatest weaknesses can’t destroy.
To feel loved is to feel that someone genuinely wants you to be your best self, because that’s the best for you.
To feel loved is to never be alone, even when there’s no one around for miles.
G-d’s profound gift to us is pure love.
Our very existence is an act of G-d’s love.
And our opportunities to develop an ever-greater connection with the Divine, our mitzvot, are given to us as an act of love.
Years ago, I met with a young lady who professed disenchantment with her Judaism. In our conversation, it became apparent that - while she had gone to Hebrew School, been “Bat-Mitzvah’d and confirmed,” and majored in Judaic Studies while at university - she hadn’t heard a single Jewish authority figure tell her that G-d loves her.
That made me very sad.