Ground Rules for Group Communication

Ground Rules for Group Communication

 

1. “Be heedful of thy words, lest through them they learn to falsify”
2. Hillel used to say, “If I am not for myself, who will be? And If I am only for myself, what am I and if not now, when?
3. ‘Say little and do much”
4. “I have found naught of better service that silence”
5. “know what is above thee – a seeing eye and a hearing ear”
6. “Separate not thyself from the congregation”
7. “Judge not thy fellowman until you have come into his place”
8. “Say nothing which cannot be understood at once, in the hope that it would be understood in the end.”
9. “In a place where there are no men, strive to be a man.” – In a place where this is no mensch, strive to be one.”
10. “Ye shall not steal; neither shall ye deal falsely, nor lie to one another”
11. “Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind.”
12. “Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people”
13. “Thou shalt not hate they brother in thy heart; thou shalt surely rebuke thy neighbor, and thou shalt not bear sin because of him…but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”
14. Hear O Israel
15. “All Israel is responsible for each other”