Read the quote you have been assigned.
1) Put the quote in your own words:
2) What does this quote tell you about the Jewish community?
3) How are Jewish people supposed to behave according to this quote?
4) Why do we participate in the Jewish community?
Pair/Square/Share your ideas with the class.
כל ישראל ערבים זה בזה
All of Israel are responsible for one another.
(יד) הוּא הָיָה אוֹמֵר, אִם אֵין אֲנִי לִי, מִי לִי. וּכְשֶׁאֲנִי לְעַצְמִי, מָה אֲנִי. וְאִם לֹא עַכְשָׁיו, אֵימָתָי:
(14) He [Rabbi Hillel] used to say: If I am not for me, who will be for me? And when I am for myself alone, what am I? And if not now, then when?
(2) And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing.
ת"ר מפרנסים עניי נכרים עם עניי ישראל ומבקרין חולי נכרים עם חולי ישראל וקוברין מתי נכרים עם מתי ישראל מפני דרכי שלום:
One sustains poor gentiles along with poor Jews, and one visits sick gentiles along with sick Jews, and one buries dead gentiles along with dead Jews. All this is done on account of the ways of peace, to foster peaceful relations between Jews and gentiles.
הִלֵּל אוֹמֵר, אַל תִּפְרוֹשׁ מִן הַצִּבּוּר,...וְאַל תָּדִין אֶת חֲבֵרָךְ עַד שֶׁתַּגִּיעַ לִמְקוֹמוֹ, וְאַל תֹּאמַר דָּבָר שֶׁאִי אֶפְשָׁר לִשְׁמוֹעַ שֶׁסּוֹפוֹ לְהִשָּׁמַע. וְאַל תֹּאמַר לִכְשֶׁאֶפָּנֶה אֶשְׁנֶה, שֶׁמָּא לֹא תִפָּנֶה:
... Hillel says: Do not separate yourself from the community...Do not judge your fellow until you come to his place. Do not say something that cannot be heard, for in the end it will be heard. Do not say, "When I will be available I will study [Torah]," lest you never become available.
Read the quote you have been assigned.
1) Put the quote in your own words:
2) What does this quote tell you about the Jewish community?
3) How are Jewish people supposed to behave according to this quote?
4) Why do we participate in the Jewish community?
Pair/Square/Share your ideas with the class.