LEV705 What to Do before You Pray: Before beginning to pray in the synagogue… take upon yourself the precept "and you shall love your neighbor as yourself" [this verse]. Concentrate on loving every member of the house of Israel as you love yourself. If you do this, your prayers will ascend, bound up with the prayers of Israel… [Isaac Luria].

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LEV787 Treat Scholars with Respect: it is a duty to treat every scholar with respect, even though he is not one's teacher, for it is written [this verse] the word zaken (old) refers here to one who has acquired wisdom. When are we required to stand up in his presence? From the moment he reaches one within six feet till he has passed alongside him. It is improper for a scholar to put the people to the trouble of standing up in his presence by deliberately passing before them. He should rather use a shorter route, tending to avoid notice, so that none will have to rise before him. [Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Talmud Torah, 6:1, 6:3].

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LEV792 See [[LEV301]] Leviticus 19:3 "I" ISSACS 7-8

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LEV820 See [[LEV301]] Leviticus 19:3 "I" ISSACS 7-8

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NUM266 Advice for a Traveler: Never Drink All That One Brought with Him or Her: When the Israelites came to Edom they said to the King, "Allow us through your land. We will not drink the waters of a well" [this verse]. From this we learn good manners. Even if a person traveling in a strange country has all his own supplies with him, he should not eat and drink what he brought with him. Instead, he should buy what he needs from the local shopkeepers in order to improve trade. What Moses meant when he spoke to the King of Edom was, "We will not drink from the well that we have with us, and we will not eat the manna that has been given us. You won't be able to complain that we were nothing but trouble to you, because we will bring you business [Tanchuma on Numbers, Chukkat, 61b].

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DEUT287 See [[LEV306]] Leviticus 19:3 fear ISAACS 131

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DEUT307 Unfair competition in the Talmud was tantamount to committing adultery (Talmud Sanhedrin 81). A person's business affairs were expected to be infused with a spirit of fairness, the rabbis taught, even where the law has nothing to say about the matter. The rabbis based this principle on [this verse].

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DEUT454 Love the Proselyte: the Torah commands us to show love towards a convert to Judaism. As a matter of fact, in thirty-six verses the Torah urges us to love converts and cautions us not to wrong them, either monetarily or through words. God loves them more, and they are more precious to Him than Israel. We can compare it to two people, one who loves the king, and the other who is loved by the king. The parallel is this: Israel loves God, but God loves the convert, as it says, "He loves the proselyte, granting him food and clothing" (this verse). Therefore, it is a mitzvah to love those whom the King loves, as it says, "You must show love towards the proselyte" (Deuteronomy 10:19) (Sefer Chasidim, paragraph 116).

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DEUT463 See [[DEUT454]] Deuteronomy 10:18 stranger ISAACS 35-6

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DEUT483 Attach Yourself to a Scholar: According to a biblical positive command, we should attach ourselves to wise men and their disciples in order to learn from their example, as it is written: "You shall hold fast to him" (this verse). But can a human being hold fast to the Shechinah? The sages explained this precept to mean: attach yourself to the wise and the disciples. A man should therefore strive to win a scholar's daughter for a wife, and marry off his daughter to a scholar. He should eat and drink in the company of scholars, do business with them, and associate with them in all respects; for the Torah repeats this precept, emphasizing "holding fast to him" (Deuteronomy 11:22). So, too, our sages recommended and said: "Sit at their feet in the dust, and drink in their words thirstily" (Ethics of the Fathers 1:4) (Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Talmud Torah, 6:2).

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