Reprove Your Fellow
A saying that calls for social involvement and protest when witnessing injustice done. One must rebuke another when necessary.
("You shall not hate your brother in your heart. He who has wronged your neighbor, and you shall not bear sin against him" - and he read 19:17, and so: "Who sees in his friend a word of reproach that he is obliged to rebuke him? The Talmud says: "He has wronged your neighbor." He rebuked and did not accept, how can he return and rebuke him? The Talmud says: "Rebuke", from every place" - Masekhet (Arachin 16b)
Translation
Expression (Hebrew)
הוֹכֵחַ תּוֹכִיחַ אֶת עֲמִיתֶךָ
Definition (Hebrew)
פִּתְגָּם הַקּוֹרֵא לִמְעֹרָבוּת חֶבְרָתִית וְלִמְחָאָה כְּשֶׁרוֹאִים עָוֶל נַעֲשֶׂה. יֵשׁ לִמְתֹּחַ בִּקֹּרֶת עַל הַזּוּלָת כְּשֶׁצָּרִיךְ.
("לֹא תִשְׂנָא אֶת אָחִיךָ בִּלְבָבֶךָ הוֹכֵחַ תּוֹכִיחַ אֶת עֲמִיתֶךָ וְלֹא תִשָּׂא עָלָיו חֵטְא"- וַיִּקְרָא יט יז, וְכֵן:"מִנַּיִן לָרוֹאֶה בַּחֲבֵרוֹ דָּבָר מְגֻנֶּה שֶׁחַיָּב לְהוֹכִיחוֹ ? תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר:"הוֹכֵחַ תּוֹכִיחַ אֶת עֲמִיתֶךָ". הוֹכִיחוּ וְלֹא קִבֵּל, מִנַּיִן שֶׁיַּחֲזֹר וְיוֹכִיחֶנּוּ?, תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר:"תּוֹכִיחַ", מִכָּל מָקוֹם"- מַסֶּכֶת עֲרָכִין טז ע"ב)