Rosh Hashanah symbolizes our aspiration to higher values, benevolence, sharing, and caring for each other.
The needed fuller understanding requires not only rational methods, facts, and scientific concepts but benevolence, intuition, moral values, spiritual perception, and goals.
They not only value benevolence because it promotes the general good, however; they also "relish" or delight in it for its own sake.
"Teachers" — that is, the prizewinners or celebrities — gave lessons in traditional values like benevolence and public morality, as well as the pre-1949 political system and human rights.
Our findings suggest that: what people value ranges from abstract to concrete; prevalent abstract values include benevolence and universalism; prevalent mid-level valued attributes include natural attributes of landscapes and human life and welfare; prevalent valued entities are people and properties close to the person.
Schwartz (1992) identifies ten values (universalism, benevolence, conformity, tradition, security, power, achievement, hedonism, stimulation and self-direction) whose effects on behaviour are interpreted by analysing the structure of relationships, or rather, of the priority each value assumes with respect to the others.
Defending China's policy in Africa, Li (2011) has highlighted the four notions of Chinese cultural values of benevolence, forbearance, trustfulness and equality to argue that the non-interference policy of China in Africa could produce a win-win situation for both countries.
But even doing so is no guarantor of value or benevolence.
Until the board and top management, model the value of benevolence as something to demonstrate, not just talk about, levels of trust will remain low.
