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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'...
You can almost feel his anticipation, his heart swelling with hope. But then… the hammer drops. "This is the land that I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob," God tells Moses, as we...
Let’s delve into what this sage has to say about divine retribution – or the lack thereof. Ben Sira, a Jewish scholar from the Second Temple period, offers a stark reminder: "In th...
Ben Sira, also known as Ecclesiasticus, is a book of wisdom literature, a treasure trove of insights into Jewish thought and practice, though it's not included in the Hebrew Bible'...
