Parshat Behar

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The sabbatical year, the jubilee year, laws of land ownership, and the prohibition against usury. Leviticus 25:1-26:2.

Betzalel and the Origins of the World

Midrash Rabbah Shemot Rabbah 40:2

It centers around Betzalel, the incredibly skilled artisan chosen to build the Mishkan, the Tabernacle, the portable sanctuary that accompanied the Israelites in the desert. The To...

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Life of Moses and Tachanah

Midrash Aggadah Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer 46:3

Rabbi Tachanah, quoted in Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer (chapter 46), gives us a fascinating glimpse behind the curtain. He says the tablets weren't some earthly creation, dug up from the...

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Deuteronomy Unpacked

Other Texts Sifrei Devarim 111:3

Poof! Gone. Wiped clean. Sounds like a fantasy. But Jewish tradition actually envisions such a thing. It's called shemittah. And it's wild. The verse in Sifrei Devarim lays it out ...

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Legal Commentary

Other Texts Sifrei Devarim 111:5

Sometimes, diving into Jewish law feels like stepping into a time machine set to "complicated." But stick with me, because buried within those intricate arguments, there's often a ...

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Account of Rebbi

Other Texts Sifrei Devarim 111:10

Our ancestors grappled with these very issues, and the Torah, in its wisdom, offered a radical solution: shemittah, the Sabbatical year. But what exactly is shemittah? Well, it's m...

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Secrets Within Torah and Rabbis

Other Texts Sifrei Devarim 112:8

The Torah, in its wisdom, grapples with this very human experience in the book of Devarim, Deuteronomy. Specifically, we find a fascinating discussion in Sifrei Devarim 112, explor...

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Written and Oral Law of Israelite

Other Texts Sifrei Devarim 113:1

Jewish law, especially when we’re talking about something as fundamental as economic justice, is all about those details. to a fascinating little corner of the Sifrei Devarim, a le...

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Law of Deuteronomy

Other Texts Sifrei Devarim 123:1

The Torah, it turns out, is overflowing with them. Take the laws surrounding freeing Hebrew slaves, for example. We find some fascinating details in Sifrei Devarim, a collection of...

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The Ten Commandments

Apocrypha Book of Jubilees 1:1

It all starts with a divine download, so to speak. The book tells us it contains the secret history of how time is divided – days, weeks, years, and especially those big jubilees, ...

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