On Hearing a Siren -- "Let Your Fellow's Money Be as Precious to You as Your Own" -- The Purchase That Is Always Forbidden -- "What Would God Want Me to Do?" -- Be Generous Even When Your Instincts Are Lazy -- When You're Tempted to Cheat -- Shabbat -- Give Cheerfully -- When a Person Says "I'm Hungry" -- Don't Play Favorites -- Don't Make Your Family Afraid of You -- Support Political Asylum -- Bless Your Children -- Don't Waste Time -- "Stay Away from a Bad Neighbor" -- The First Trait to Look for in a Spouse -- "Love Your Wife as Yourself" -- Respect Your In-Laws -- Don't Speak Unless You Have Something to Say -- If You Have a Bad Temper -- Find Excuses for Behavior That Seems Unkind -- "Judge the Whole of a Person Favorably" -- Return Lost Objects -- "As Long as the Candle Is Burning ..." -- Don't "Steal" Another Person's Mind -- Who Is Wise? -- The Special Obligation to Visit and Help People, Particularly Poor People, Who Are Sick -- Visiting the Sick: Seven Suggestions -- A Gynecologist from New Jersey, a Lawyer from Brooklyn -- Sharing Helpful News -- Is a Jew Permitted to Smoke? -- When Not Giving Charity Is the Highest Charity -- Give Money When Times Are Hard -- Acting Cheerfully Is Not a Choice -- One Must Always Greet Another Person -- Should a Recovering Alcoholic Drink Wine on Shabbat and at the Seder? -- The Jewish Ethics of Speech: What Is Lashon Hara? -- Don't Pass on Negative Comments -- The Sin That No One Ever Acknowledges Committing -- When Confrontation Is Desirable -- "You Shall Not Ill-Treat Any ... Orphan" -- Why Refraining from Gossiping Is an Important Challenge -- Tzedaka Is More Than Charity -- Fight Fairly -- A Day Without Rumors; How About a Week? -- When Is It Appropriate to Pass On a Rumor? -- Some Thoughts for a Bar Mitzvah or Bat Mitzvah -- Learning from the Bad to Do Good -- Love the Stranger -- The Torah on the Blind and the Deaf -- Standing Up for Justice -- Don't Buy Products Produced by Exploited Workers -- Everybody Deserves a "Tenk You" -- The Need for Moral Imagination -- "One Who Learns from His Companion a Single Chapter" -- Cite Your Sources -- Who Is Rich? -- Enjoy, Enjoy -- "Keep Far Away from Falsehood" -- "What Good Thing Happened to Me This Week?" -- When, If Ever, Is It Permitted to Lie? (1): When Life Is at Stake -- When, If Ever, is It Permitted to Lie? (2): Judaism and White Lies -- When, If Ever, Is It Permitted to Lie? (3): Lies Told for Reasons of Humility, Privacy, and Not to Harm Another -- Declaring a "Complaining Fast" -- The Most Unusual of Blessings -- Treating People Who Are Retarded with Respect -- Don't Charge Interest -- Help Someone Laugh -- For Whom Was I Named? -- A Lifesaving Bribe -- The Little Indecencies That Reveal Character -- "The Most Beautiful Etrog I Have Ever Seen" -- "Do Not Stand by While Your Neighbor's Blood Is Shed": The Requirement to Intervene -- When You Suspect Child Abuse -- Untamed Anger and the Death Of Love -- Be Fair to Your Enemy -- Don't Make People Tell You Lies -- "He Who Saves a Single Life It Is as If He Saved an Entire World" -- Spend a Week Following Your Heart -- Don't Make Unrealistic Demands of People -- A Jewish View of Hunting -- Feed Your Animals Before Yourself -- Don't Spread Negative, but Irrelevant, Information About Someone You Dislike -- Don't Humiliate an Enemy -- Pray for Someone Else Today -- Raising Your Child to Be a Mensch -- The Questions All Parents Should Ask Themselves -- "Just as Theft of Money Is Theft, So Is Theft of Time" -- What It Means to Sanctify God's Name -- The Special Obligation of Religious Jews to Sanctify God's Name -- Shabbat -- When Is the Best Time to Repent? -- Acknowledge Your Sin and Accept Responsibility -- Ask for Forgiveness Even When You're Not Fully in the Wrong -- Tipping Even Those Whose Faces You Don't See -- What If You Could Read Your Obituary Today? -- The Infinite Ways of Doing Good -- "You Shall Not Place a Stumbling Block" -- The Nameless Person Behind the Coun ter -- Acts of Kindness (1): Looking Backward -- Acts of Kindness (2): Looking Ahead -- Acts of Kindness (3): Looking Ahead -- The Least Time to Spare, the Most Time to Give -- God's Four Questions -- Do You Scream When You Should? -- Paying a Laborer's Wages Promptly -- What a Worker Owes His Employer -- What We Owe Our Siblings -- Anger: Three Thoughts Before You Explode -- What Does It Mean to Honor and Revere Your Parents? -- What You Don't Owe Your Parents -- Escort Your Guests -- Two Pieces of Paper -- Read and Listen to Points of View with Which You Disagree -- It's Not Only What You Do for Your Parents That Counts--It's Your Attitude -- "Educate a Child According to His Way" -- Don't Threaten Your Children with Physical Punishment -- Enter a Mourner's Home with Silence -- "Don't Take My Grief from Me" -- "You Shall Not Carry God's Name in Vain": An Unforgivable Sin -- When It's Good to Be a Fool -- Helping Non-Jews -- Schedule Kindness into Your Day -- Don't Be a Pious Fool -- Don't Serve Liquor with an Overly Generous Hand -- True Hospitality: Did You Ask Your Wife? -- Don't Embarrass Your Guest, Don't Embarrass Your Children -- When You Suspect Spousal Abuse -- An Abused Spouse: How You Can Help -- Maimonides' Advice: How to Change Negative Behavior -- The Unending Obligation to Be Kind -- "What's Hateful Unto You ..." -- Not Everything That Is Thought Should Be Said -- A Day of Kind Deeds -- An Expensive Technique for Overcoming Anger -- When You're Angry at Your Spouse: Putting Things into Perspective -- Treating Your Employees with Respect -- Abraham, the Model of Hospitality -- There Is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch -- How Fear of God Can Make You a Better Person (1) -- How Fear of God Can Make You a Better Person (2) -- Express Gratitude to Your Parents -- When Your Mate and Your Parents Are in Conflict -- "From a Child Is Beautiful, Anything" -- "This Is the Most Delicious Muffin I Have Ever Tasted" -- When You Hear That Someone's Taking a Long Trip, Make Sure They Take Along Some Extra Money -- Steady Giving -- Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: What the Torah Says -- Can Veal Be Kosher? -- Should a Jew Wear Fur? -- When Giving Enough Is Not Enough -- What Does the Sick Person Need? -- Should a Doctor or a Close Family Member Tell the Truth to a Person Who Is Dying? -- Is Your Work Sacred? -- Is Abortion Murder? Should a Woman's Right to Abortion Be Absolute? -- Should a Woman Have the Right to Do What She Wants with Her Body? -- Rabbi Aryeh Levine and the Mitzvah to Visit the Sick -- Help Someone to Find a Spouse, Help Someone to Find Work -- Do Good ... Now -- Teach Your Child Torah -- Teach Your Child the Value of Human Life -- A Pragmatic Reason for Forgiving Others -- Charity Is Not Enough -- Find Work for the Developmentally Disabled -- An Employer Must Know How His Employees Live -- Confession and Your Neighbor's Soul -- How Can One Repent Who Has Committed the Ultimate and Unforgivable Sin? -- When a Jew Acts Dishonestly Toward a Non-Jew -- One Boss in a Million -- Have You Written an Ethical Will? -- Three Traits That Reveal Your Character -- "Until the Day of One's Death" -- When the Old Become Frail -- Beyond the Letter of the Law -- Consult with Your Spouse, Consult with Your Friends -- "The Dust of Forbidden Speech" -- A Twenty-Four-Hour Experiment -- Don't Bear a Grudge -- Picking Up Sumbling Blocks -- The Limits of Self-Sacrifice -- "Go and Gather the Feathers" -- Make Sure You Have a Friend Who Can Criticize You -- Bar Mitzvahs and Bat Mitzvahs, and the Need for a New Kind of Hero -- Start Your Day with Gratitude -- If You Have a Tendency to Complain About Others -- Respect Your Family's Privacy -- "What Does a Good Guest Say?" -- Question to Ask Yourself Before You Criticize Another -- Knowing When to Step Aside -- When You've Judged Another Unfairly -- "Therefore Was Man Created Singly" -- "If Someone Wishes to Kill You, Get Up Early and Kill Him First" -- Be Conscious of the Goodness and Sweetness in Others -- The Good That You Do Lives On -- When It's Right to Be Early -- "His Mercy Is Upon All His Works" -- Be Kind to Your Enemy's Animal -- "Seek Peace and Pursue It" -- On Loving Yourself -- "There Is No Messenger in a Case of Sin" -- The Power of Goodness -- Teach Your Child a Profession -- Teach Your Child That What Matters Most to God Is Goodness -- Don't Give Away Too Much -- Can a Religious Person Be Cruel? -- The Antidote to Arrogance -- Don't Pretend to Virtues You Don't Have -- "Love Your Neighbor": What Is the Neighbor's Responsibility? -- "Honor Your Father and Mother": The Surprising Wording of the Biblical Commandment -- If Parents Become Senile -- How to Learn Empathy -- Don't Snap at Your Spouse -- Are You in an Abusive Relationship? -- Don't Be an Elitist -- Don't Encourage Your Children to Date Wealthy People -- The Painful, Challenging, Question Parents Must Ask Children -- Marriage Is Also Supposed to Be Fun -- Rabbenu Gershom and the Prohibition Against Being a Snoop -- Be Generous with Power -- When Silence Is Golden -- Learn Even from Those with Whom You Disagree -- Revenge and the Command to Love Your Neighbor -- Who Is a Hero? A Jewish Perspective -- Accidents Do Happen -- When an Accident Is No Accident -- Don't Be a Mitzvah Hero at Someone Else's Expense -- Speak Truth to Power -- Just How Much Are You Supposed to Fear God? -- Don't Mouth Pious Platitudes -- Do a Favor ... for Your Enemy -- Maimonides, Art Buchwald, and the Importance of Every Deed -- When You Have Been Sinned Against: Your Obligation -- A Nightly Prayer Before Going to Sleep -- Don't Let Your Child Humiliate Another Child -- What the Fifth Commandment Demands of Parents -- Make Your Celebration a Cause for Everyone to Celebrate -- On Not Embarrassing the Recipient -- Is There Someone You're Ignoring Whom You Should Ask for Forgiveness? -- Don't Forgive on Other People's Behalf -- The Punishment of One Who Humiliates Another -- When You Can't Give Money.
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