Let your student's honor be as dear to you as your own.

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Let your student's honor be as dear to you as your own.

Your student's honor should be as precious in your eyes as your own honor.

("Rabbi Eliezer ben Shamua says: Let your student's honor be as dear to you as your own, and your friend's honor like the fear of your teacher, and the fear of your teacher like the fear of Heaven. From where do we learn that a person's student's honor should be as dear to him as his own? Let everyone learn from Moses our teacher, who said to Joshua, 'Choose men for us' (Exodus 17). It was not said 'Choose for me,' but rather 'Choose for us,' teaching that he made him his equal" — Masekhet Ketanot, Masekhet Avot de-Rabbi Natan, Version A, chapter 27)

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Expression (Hebrew)

יְהִי כְּבוֹד תַּלְמִידְךָ חָבִיב עָלֶיךָ כְּשֶׁלְּךָ

Definition (Hebrew)

כְּבוֹד תַּלְמִידְךָ צָרִיךְ לִהְיוֹת יָקָר בְּעֵינֶיךָ כְּמוֹ כְּבוֹדְךָ שֶׁלְּךָ.

("רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר בֶּן שַׁמּוּעַ אוֹמֵר יְהִי כְּבוֹד תַּלְמִידְךָ חָבִיב עָלֶיךָ כְּשֶׁלְּךָ, וּכְבוֹד חֲבֵרְךָ כְּמוֹרָא רַבְּךָ וּמוֹרָא רַבְּךָ כְּמוֹרָא שָׁמַיִם: מִנַּיִן שֶׁיְּהֵא כְּבוֹד תַּלְמִידוֹ חָבִיב עָלָיו כִּכְבוֹדוֹ?- יִלְמְדוּ כָּל אָדָם מִמֹּשֶׁה רַבֵּנוּ, שֶׁאָמַר לִיהוֹשֻׁעַ בָּחַר לָנוּ אֲנָשִׁים (שְׁמוֹת יז ). בָּחַר לִי לֹא נֶאֱמַר אֶלָּא בָּחַר לָנוּ מְלַמֵּד שֶׁעֲשָׂאוּהוּ כְּמוֹתוֹ"-מַסֶּכְתּוֹת קְטַנּוֹת מַסֶּכֶת אָבוֹת דְּרַבִּי נָתָן נֻסְחָא א פֶּרֶק כז)

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