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Leviticus 18
Levitiucs 18 : 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the Lord your God.
3 After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.
4 Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the Lord your God.
5 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord.
6 None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the Lord.
7 The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
8 The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.
9 The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.
10 The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy daughter's daughter, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs is thine own nakedness.
11 The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
12 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister: she is thy father's near kinswoman.
13 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: for she is thy mother's near kinswoman.
14 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt.
15 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: she is thy son's wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
16 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it is thy brother's nakedness.
17 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is wickedness.
18 Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.
19 Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.
20 Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her.
21 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord.
22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.
24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
25 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
26 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
27 (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)
28 That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
29 For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.
30 Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the Lord your God.
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“Love your neighbor as yourself”
I grew up singing in unison with other little chipmunk voices in the children’s choir the loud message: So said Rabbi Akivah - you should love your neighbor as yourself. Rabbi “A” was quoting Leviticus.
Every religious - and non-religious - mindset has uniquely approached personalizing what has come to be known as The Golden Rule; human beings individually and institutionally recognize a core universal human value is that we must do unto others as we would have done unto ourselves. I know I would want someone to speak for me if I was a target of hate.
And once, someone did.
The solitary instance I was faced with a person speaking ill of Jewish people in front of me, my Catholic companion spoke up.”Sorry,” the Anti-Semitic cab driver said. Adding insult to injury he added, “you didn't look Jewish.” My Catholic friend was incensed. “It wouldn’t have been okay to speak about a Jewish person like that even if my friend wasn’t Jewish.”  This was the lone time in decades of my being alive something like this happened. My BIPOC friends tell me they face hate like this - and usually much worse - on the daily. 
It takes bravery to speak out. While America claims to be “the home of the brave” --  it sometime feels hard to be brave. In conversations with friends and colleagues, many mourn that they want to do the right thing when they bear witness to hate, but that fear overpowers and suffocates good intentions with resistance. Navigating away from being a bystander and becoming an ally is a challenge, but the cross-cultural study of The Golden Rule is a testament that each of us would want others to be an ally if we were the target. We each would want others to: stand up to hate speech;  respond when a neighbor in the community is murdered due to bigotry and hate; and tell the government it must do better to protect and serve all people.
Love is a verb. Non-BIPOC Americans must do the work to be brave, have hard conversations, and love through intentional actions that aim to support and heal our neighbors. A trust between neighbors has been violated for too long. Starting with exploring the fundamental question, “how does one rebuild trust” is a good place to begin to make inroads.
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