Honor
According to the Talmud, it is a commandment (mitzvah) to stand up for a Rabbi or Torah scholar, and one should also stand for their spouses and address them with respect. Kohanim are required to honor Rabbis and Torah scholars like everybody else. However, if one is more learned than the Rabbi or the scholar there is no need to stand.
In many places today and throughout history, Rabbis and Torah scholars had and still have the power to place individuals who insulted them in excommunication.
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Famous quotes containing the word honor:
“But why should honor outlive honesty?
Let it all go.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“We honor founders of these starving cities,
Whose honor is the image of our sorrow.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)