Climb Sinai: The Big Ideas of Judaism

#23 - Honor and Respect for All Torah Educators

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Based on Mishnah Torah I: Book of Knowledge, the Laws of Torah Learning/Teaching, Ch. 6


  • Do we need to afford honor and respect to all Torah teachers or just our own?
  • Is reverence just a formality? How might practicing reverence towards the people who deserve it impact us as people?


    • Every society is shaped by its relationship to its teachers. Reverence produces an receptivity to the wisdom a society seeks to transmit to the next generation, and a general irreverence nurtures an instability that is untenable.


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