referring to the famous passage in Pirkei Avot, the compilation of ethical teachings excerpted from early Jewish writings. It’s a speech that Shapiro’s friends, teachers and associates could ...

In fact, over 1,000 years later in the text of Pirkei Avot it says, “Make the property of your fellow as precious to you as your own,” and “let the honor of your fellow be as precious to you ...

A quote, written in the second century and attributed to Rabbi Tarfon, has been in the forefront of my mind lately.