Ground Rules for Group Communication
- “Be heedful of thy words, lest through them they learn to falsify”
- 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?
- ‘Say little and do much”
- “I have found naught of better service that silence”
- “know what is above thee – a seeing eye and a hearing ear”
- “Separate not thyself from the congregation”
- “Judge not thy fellowman until you have come into his place”
- “Say nothing which cannot be understood at once, in the hope that it would be understood in the end.”
- “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.”
- “Ye shall not steal; neither shall ye deal falsely, nor lie to one another”
- “Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind.”
- “Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people”
- “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.”
- Hear O Israel
- “All Israel is responsible for each other”