Babylonian Talmud, Bava Mezia 59a: ―Do not rebuke your fellow with your own blemish‖.
7:6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs
―Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them
under their feet, and turn again and rend you‖.
What is it that is "Holy" that we can misuse? The topic has not changed -- it is the Torah.
A similar sentiment is found in the Talmud:
Babylonian Talmud, Ket. 111a: ―R. Levi said: "God made Israel swear that they should not reveal the
[Messianic] end, and should not reveal the secrets of [of the Torah] to the idolators‖.‖
7:7 Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find
―Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:‖
Ask for what? Money, fame or happiness? No, the spiritual man seeks spiritual things in the form of the truth
and blessings of the Torah:
(17) ‖Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with
whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
(18) Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his
creatures.
(19) Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
(20) For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
(21) Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the
engrafted word, which is able to save your souls‖. (Jam 1:17-21)
The primary example of what we are to pray for was given to us by Y‘shua. He prayed for us to become one
(a unity - Hebrew: echad) with the Father, as He is echad with the Father:
(20) ‖Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
(21) That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us:
that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
(22) And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
(23) I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that
thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
(24) Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold
my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
(25) O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known
that thou hast sent me.
(26) And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved
me may be in them, and I in them‖. (John 17:20-26)
7:8-12 Do to others what you would have them do to you
―(8) For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be
opened. (9) Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? (10) Or if he
ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? (11) If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your
children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? (12)
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the
law and the prophets‖.
This time Y‘shua is directly quoting Hillel (see Glossary section for more info), the grandfather of Gamaliel.
Gamaliel taught Paul:
Babylonian Talmud, Shabat 31a; ―What is hateful to you, do it not unto others -- this is the entire Torah, and
the rest is commentary‖.
(Yes, we can actually thank the Pharisees for the "Golden Rule" that we all teach our children! – Also see
section ―James the Brother of Y‘shua‖ under ―Matt 13:53-54 And when he was come into his own country‖)