Chapter 143 – Honoring Father and Mother
143.1) Be extremely careful to revere and fear your father and mother.
143.2) Fear means to show respect.
143.3) Honor means provide them with food, drink, and clothing when they need it.
143.4) Do not awaken them from sleep.
143.5) When asking the favor of a townsmen, do so in the name of your father, not your own.
143.6) Do not implicate your mother to avoid your father’s anger.
143.7) Rise and remain standing in your parent’s presence.
143.8) Honor your parents even after their deaths.
143.9) If your father is wicked and a sinner, you must still fear and revere him.
143.10) If you see your father doing something wrong, do not admonish him, but ask him for information so he may see his transgression for himself.)
143.11) Do not obey your father if he asks you to commit a transgression.
143.12) You are not required to honor a father who forbids you to not go study Torah in another location if it will benefit you to do so.
143.13) A married woman is to honor her husband above her parents.
143.14) You will risk being cursed if you dishonor your father or mother.
143.15) Do not remove a splinter from your father or mother lest you cause them a wound.
143.16) Be kind to parents suffering from dementia.
143.17) Do not place a burdensome yoke upon your children.
143.18) Do not beat a grownup son.
143.19) Respect a step-mother or step-father.
143.20) Honor your elder brother.
143.21) Honor parents by devoting yourself to study of Torah and doing good deeds.
143.22) A converted Jew must not curse or despise his non-Jewish parent.