K’VOD HABAYIT - Honoring this house: Respect this environment
and building – clean up after yourself.
K’VOD HAMAKOM – Honoring this place: Respect the Temple as a
center for learning, gathering and worship.
K’VOD HACHAVERIM - Respecting fellow members: Speak kindly to
anyone of any age and treat them in ways that you want to be treated, whether
in polite conversation or heated discussion; be accepting of differences in background and opinion, while
always taking the opportunity to remind one another that we are all valued members
of the community. Remember
to say excuse me, I'm sorry, please, and thank you at the right moment. Always seek peace in this House of God
- Beit Eil.
K’VOD HAK’HILAH – Honoring the community: Respect what people
give to the congregation, especially their knowledge and time and care. Learn
and live the values of the congregation and Judaism within the Temple walls and
throughout the community.
K’VOD HALIMUD – Honoring study: Respect what everyone adds to
Temple as a learning community.
K'VOD HA-EMET - Honoring the truth - Be honest and forthright in communication
in a way that is supportive and respectful, so that sharing the truth will lead
to communal and personal growth.
K'VOD HADOROT - Honoring the generations - recognize the special
ways in which members of all ages add to the richness of the congregation and remember
that we all have something to teach and learn from one another across the
different stages of life.
K'VOD HATZIBUR - Honoring the general community - do not separate
yourself from the needs and hopes of local citizens and of those living in the
state, nation and world - offer
the best of Jewish values to our neighbors to create greater understanding and further
tikkun olam, the healing and repair of humankind and the earth on which we
live.
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