“When you encounter your enemy’s ox or donkey wandering, you must take it back to him.” --Exodus 23:4
- Can you think of modern day examples for this value?
- In addition, what strategies can you come up with to help us respond to one another?
Monday, February 16, 2009
Acting Fairly Towards Everyone
This is a rather difficult value. Everyone deserves our individual attention and respect, but we are quick to respond to those with whom have had good experiences before hand. The Torah gives a very tough command, not just to act fairly towards our friends, but even more so towards our 'enemies.'
“When you encounter your enemy’s ox or donkey wandering, you must take it back to him.” --Exodus 23:4
“When you encounter your enemy’s ox or donkey wandering, you must take it back to him.” --Exodus 23:4
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this post is very true. everyone should act fairly towards everybody.
E.L.E-Everbody love Everbody. i heard it in a movie so i thought this was the right time. well anyways, unfortunatley not everyone gets along w/ everybody and u just need to think about how to make the situation better.
A modern example would be the bear project in which we just completed. On the bear we included Mr. Sakofs's name, number, and the address of the school. One would think that it is an obligation to return the Bear, but in thie case, 95% of them were, in fact, not returned. And since there were no real tangible answers as of 4:05 P.M.. Therefore, I cannot really answer yor second question.
A few spelling errors and mistakes in that last post. I apologize. Instead of 5:05 P.M., it was in fact 4:03 P.M. Just clarifying that for everyone.
We should treat both enemies and friends with fairness and justice. Someone who could be your enemy could be your friend the next day by making tshuva. As a modern example the Japanese were enemies of the United States during WWII. Now we get along and buy many Japanese products, and vice versa. Our society would be very corrupt if we let our friends slide and only punish our enemies. Sometimes its best to let a court or a neutral third party help you work things out in order to maintain peace.
We should respect everyone wether enemy or friends because we are all people and we all deserve the respect of a human being.
I agree with Benny on the modern example part of it.
My modern day example is kind of like PoliticallyBlahBlahBlah. If you find someone's wallet, book, etc. that has someone's name in it, obviously, it is the right thing to do to give it back to the person who owns it, even if you don't like them. Being the bigger person shows more character and makes you feel a lot better about yourself. (Well it does for me, at least.)
I dont really agree with the post. Why treat someone with respect when they treat you poorly. If someone does something very corrupt, you should never forgive him, unless he apologizes or something. A example of this would be during WW11 when the United States bombed Japan. Now we have peace with Japan.
i think this post is extremely important and difficult to do. naturally we would prefere to treat our friends better than our enemies. i think a modern example of this would be treating coach and our teachers with the same respect. maybe we could have more posts on the same topic to help with our responding problem
Everyones the same and i treat everyone the same but loathe them on the inside. there will never be peace between individuals. this value really can never be acheived by anyone
i think you should treat everyone equally but hen there are those people who dont deserve to betrated as everyone els. like if someone stole something of yours then you would obviosly treat the person who didnt steal something form you better then the person did steal something
Treat others how you want to be treated explains this. For we are all humans and should be treated on the same level. Even if people are rude and mean we should all just be kind!
Treat others how you want to be treated explains this. For we are all humans and should be treated on the same level. Even if people are rude and mean we should all just be kind!
I agree with Ben, this post reminds me of the bear project we did. If somebody that knows me and doesn't like me saw my name on that bear they should still return it because it is the right thing to do. Maybe if you return the lost item, there could be peace between them now.
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