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That’s exactly what the rabbis in Sifrei Devarim are wrestling with as they unpack Deuteronomy 14:24-25. The verses deal with bringing your tithes to Jerusalem, but what if the jou...
Like one verse says, "Do this!" and another says, "Don't do that!" It happens more than you think. And that's where the beauty of rabbinic interpretation comes in, helping us untan...
We're talking about building a roof, and the critical importance of preventing someone from falling. Sounds straightforward. But the Rabbis delved deep into the nuances of the vers...
They knew that not everything that grows together, goes together. We’re diving today into a fascinating corner of Jewish law: the prohibition of kilayim – forbidden mixtures, speci...
Our first stop: plowing. Deuteronomy 22 tells us, "You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together" (Deuteronomy 22:10). Seems straightforward. But the rabbis of old, never one...
Adultery is wrong. But the Rabbis, masters of nuance and detail, saw layers upon layers within those words. What exactly does “cohabited with by a husband” really mean? The Sifrei ...
Today, let's dive into one of those seemingly minor, yet fascinating corners of Jewish law – the laws of sanitation. We find ourselves in Sifrei Devarim, a legal midrash on the Boo...
The ancient rabbis wrestled with that feeling too, especially when considering the relationship between Israel and the other nations. We find a powerful, raw expression of this in ...
The Sifrei Devarim, a collection of early rabbinic legal interpretations on the Book of Deuteronomy, offers us a beautiful glimpse into this idea, through its exploration of Moses'...
