Respectful Relationships
Ethics of Our Fathers: Avot 4:12
By Mendel Kaplan
The dignity of your student should be as precious to you as your own; the dignity of your colleague, as your awe of your master; and your awe of your master as your awe of Heaven.
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Nonjudgmental?!
Ethics of Our Fathers: Avot 4:7-8
By Mendel Kaplan
One who refrains from serving as a judge avoids hatred, thievery and false oaths. One who frivolously hands down rulings is a fool, wicked and arrogant… Do not judge on your own…
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Respect for Torah
Ethics of Our Fathers: Avot 4:6
By Mendel Kaplan
Rabbi Yossei would say: Whoever honors the Torah, is himself honored by the people; whoever degrades the Torah, is himself degraded by the people.
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Sacrilege (2)
Ethics of Our Fathers: Avot 4:4
By Mendel Kaplan
Whoever desecrates the Divine Name covertly, is punished in public. Regarding the desecration of the Name, the malicious and the merely negligent are one and the same.
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Extreme Humility (1)
Ethics of Our Fathers: Avot 4:4
By Mendel Kaplan
Rabbi Levitas of Yavneh would say: Be very, very humble, for the hope of mortal man is worms.
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Torah and Morality
Ethics of Our Fathers: Avot 3:17
By Mendel Kaplan
Rabbi Eliezer the son of Azariah would say: If there is no Torah, there is no common decency; if there is no common decency, there is no Torah.
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The Meat of Torah
Ethics of Our Fathers: Avot 3:18
By Mendel Kaplan
Rabbi Eliezer Chisma would say: the laws of kinin (bird offerings) and the laws of menstrual periods--these, these are the meat of Halachah (Torah law). The calculations of solar seasons and gematria are the condiments of wisdom.
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The Collector
Ethics of Our Fathers: Avot 3:15-16
By Mendel Kaplan
…The collection-officers make their rounds every day and exact payment from man, with his knowledge and without his knowledge….
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Everything is Seen
Ethics of Our Fathers: Avot 3:15
By Mendel Kaplan
All is foreseen, and freedom of choice is granted. The world is judged with goodness, but in accordance with the amount of man's positive deeds.
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The Preciousness of the Jew (2)
Ethics of Our Fathers: Avot 3:14
By Mendel Kaplan
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