| JEWISH VALUES |
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THE WORLD'S
VALUES HELD BY MANY PEOPLE |
| 1. Prophets |
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1. Profits |
| 2. Love thy neighbor as thyself |
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2. Suspect thy neighbor as thyself |
| 3. Just weights, just measures |
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3. Let the buyer beware |
| 4. God |
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4. Me |
| 5. People created in God's image |
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5. People treated as consumers |
| 6. The earth is the Lord's |
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6. The earth ravaged for convenience and profit |
| 7. People are to be co-workers with God in efforts to improve
the world |
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7. Do your own thing; seek personal advantage |
| 8. Sanctity of every life |
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8. Lives endangered to increase gain |
| 9. Tzedeck, tzedeck tirdof (justice, justice shalt thou
pursue) |
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9. Society filled with injustice |
| 10. Tza'ar ba'alei chayim (kindness to animals) |
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10. Animals brutally treated and killed to meet human desires |
| 11. God provides food for all; share thy bread with the
hungry |
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11. Millions die annually due to lack of food; "enough for the
world's need, but not their "greed" |
| 12. Leave corners of the field and gleanings of the harvest
for the poor |
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12. Centralized help; let government handle social problems |
| 13. I am my brother's keeper |
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13. Lower my taxes; cut services for others |
| 14. To be |
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14.To have; to consume; to appear |
| 15. Jubilee year; redistribution of wealth periodically |
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15. Growing gaps between the wealthy and the poor |
| 16. Seek peace and pursue it |
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16. My country right or wrong; huge arms expenditures |
| 17. Be kind to the stranger |
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17. Much discrimination and animosity between groups |
| 18. Dignity of labor |
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18. Many people have little pride in work |
| 19. Sabbatical year; let the ground lie fallow every 7 years |
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19. Fertility of soil destroyed by annual planting of monocrops |
| 20. Sumptuary laws that limit expenditures on simchas |
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20. Lavish affairs; wastefulness |
