Mitzvah
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Approaching the Divine
Parashat Mishpatim is full of rules, including those that leave the Hebrew people with timeless principles as well as situational directions that seem specific to a certain lifestyle. Indeed, many of the injunctions which…
- Commandments, Community, Exodus, Interpretation, Israelites, Judges, Komps Kaos, Law, Mishpatim, Mitzvah, Moses, Narrative, New York, Parsha, Rules, Shemot, Sinai, Torah
Judging Rules
Parashat Mishpatim begins with, “And these are the judgments which you will set before them.” Sometimes the word for judgments, the title of this parsha, mishpatim, gets translated as rules…which isn’t quite right.…
- Birthday, Boundaries, Commandments, Egypt, Family, Friends, Mishpatim, Mitzvah, Museums, Parsha, Questions, Rules, Textual Criticism
The Boundaries of Growth
My birthday week was superb! Dinner with friends, airplanes, art, tons of museums, presidential history, Oscars, my dad and a friend visiting, Shabbos dinner at my house, and plenty of good conversation –…
- Blessing, Community, Curse, Davening, Deuteronomy, Farewell, Israelites, Land, Minyan, Mitzvah, Parsha, Re'eh, Sacrifice, Shabbat, Worship
Centering and Recentering
Sight. Protection. Care. Life. Legalism. Rules. Rabbis. Pharisees. Kashrut. Chagim. Atonement. Mishnah. Debate. Holiness. Blessings. Curses. Land. People. Nation. Identity. History. Modernity. Destruction. Worship. Sacrifice. Desire. Place. Mitzvot. Obedience. Foreigner. Money. Generosity. Poor.…
- Amalek, Deuteronomy, Honesty, Integrity, Ki Tetzei, Land, Leviticus, Maimonides, Mitzvah, Nachmanides, Parsha, Philo, Relationship, Sages, Tzitzit
All About the Mitzvot?
Parashat Ki Tetzei is infamous as the portion full of mitzvot (mirroring sections of Leviticus). But what do we learn from G!d’s statutes to his people about to enter the promised land? The…
