As if this were not enough, his violence had broken the fundamental principles of the Torah: love of God and love of neighbor. In his excessive ardor for the law’s integrity, he had forgotten God’s stern command: “Thou shalt not kill.” “In my inmost self, I delight in the law of God, but I perceive in my actions a different law, fighting against the law that my mind approves,” he would reflect later on his predicament. “Wretched creature that I am, who is there to rescue me from this state of death? Who but God?”37 By
