BEING GOOD TO OTHERS How we treat others reflects on us and on our understanding of the world. We treat others well because that's how we expect others to treat us, and because it's just the "right thing" to do.
1. On three things the world exists: on Torah on worship and on acts of loving kindness. Pirke Avot 1:2 2. It has been told to you, O human, What is good, and what God seeks of you: Only to practice justice, To love compassion, And to walk humbly before your God Micah 6:8 3. Do not do to your friend what is hateful to yourself. Babylonian Talmud Shabbat 31a 4. Other people's dignity should be as precious to you as your own. (Pirke Avot 2:15) How is this to be understood? This teaches that one should treat others with the same dignity as one treats oneself. And, just as no one wants to have his or her own dignity trampled upon, So too a person should not want the dignity of others to be trampled upon. Avot d’RabbiNatan 14 5. When a human being performs acts of loving kindness and shows goodness toward other creatures, God will do the same and show that person mercy. Judah Loew of Prague (Maharal) 6. To be pious to God is to be caring to people. Philo 7. Without a love of humankind there is not love of God. Sholem Asch |
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