starting with the fourth of the Ten Commandments, “Honor your father and your mother,” but not stopping there. In the Torah (Leviticus/Vayikra 19:32) we find the injunction to honor an elderly person. The rabbis in the Talmud (Kiddushin 32b) debate at length whether an elderly person should show honor to a Torah scholar who happens to be younger, and the conclusion is that yes, one should. Indeed, all human beings deserve honor, and the principle of kavod ha’briyot is so strong that it “pushes off” certain types of the Torah’s negative precepts (Megilla 3b and Berachot 19b).