It is common - and correct - in characterizing the thought of Hasdai Crescas to list his distinctive and radical positions on topics of physics and metaphysics, free will, and of course, love. Crescas is - again correctly - described as at the vanguard of post-Aristotelian thought, an evolving thinker throughout his career, and a profound philosopher. Yet these summaries of Crescas’s thought efface one of its most distinctive and valuable aspects. Crescas does not merely formulate distinctive theological, philosophical, and legal positions, but rather orients his inquiry along an entirely different axis: the stance not of a philosopher, but of an individual confronting questions in the first person. According to Crescas, much of the religious significance of holding proper beliefs or performing proper actions lies not in the respective cognitive or behavioral achievement, but in the extent to which an individual cares about and identifies with the belief or behavior in question.