Oral law assignment - Dani

         I chose the commandment, "Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself" because I believe that you should always treat your peers as you wish to be treated. I interpret this mitzvah as, do not try to hurt others or get pay back for something that has happened, treat everyone one with respect. I try to fulfill this mitzvah in my daily life, especially at Heller, even though it may be hard at times. It is human instinct to want to hurt others the way they hurt you, but I am working on forgiveness. This can be a guideline for me as a Jew in the modern world because the world is still filled with anti-semitism and if I follow this commandment I can attempt to rise above that.

        I choose this particular picture because I believe everyone that I am surrounded with in it, is the perfect representation of this commandment. All four of the girls that I am pictured with are the nicest most caring people I have met and they treat everyone around them with respect. They have the ability to forgive quickly but still receive respect because they treat everyone else in the same way. They are the perfect representations of this mitzvah and the perfect model of how I strive to treat others and myself in the future