Commandment Profile:

+206) To love others as oneself
Application to gentiles:
Required
Mandated punishment for violation:
From Heaven
Brief description:
To treat others as one would want to be treated, whether in matters of relationships, money, or other physical needs, and to seek their best interests as much as one’s own. For Jews, this applies only to other Jews; for Hasidic Gentiles, it would apply to other Hasidic Gentiles, though probably not as strictly. But it does not apply toward followers of any false religion such as Buddhism, Christianity, or Islam (see commandment -50), except as appropriate to help turn such people to the path of repentance.
Category:
Biblical source(s) (Rambam): Lev. 19:18
Biblical source (Sefer HaChinuch): Lev. 19:18
Number in Sefer HaChinuch: 243
Sources explaining relevance to gentiles:

  • Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Deios 7:8
    Yishuv haaretz requires an absence of vengeance and grudges, allowing social and economic harmony between b’nei Adam (Rambam includes gentiles by this term).

  • Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Teshuvah 2:10
    Gentiles criticized for vengefulness and bearing grudges