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Our tradition understands that feeling deeply. It even has laws to protect against it. to a little corner of Jewish law, specifically dealing with the ethics of lending and borrowi...
The Torah, our guide to living a meaningful life, has something to say about that. Sifrei Devarim, a collection of ancient rabbinic teachings on the Book of Deuteronomy, gives us a...
The ancient rabbis grappled with this all the time, teasing out the nuances of Jewish law from even the briefest verses in the Torah. Today, let's dive into a couple of fascinating...
to one tiny phrase, "and he cohabit with her," from Sifrei Devarim, a collection of legal interpretations on the Book of Deuteronomy. Sounds dry. But trust me, there’s a fascinatin...
Our exploration begins in Sifrei Devarim, a collection of legal interpretations on the Book of Deuteronomy. Here, the rabbis grapple with a fundamental question: How is a woman acq...
The Torah, in the book of Devarim (Deuteronomy), actually touches on this very human experience. It speaks about divorce, about what happens when love fades, or maybe wasn't even t...
Specifically, they debated what constitutes a true "cutting off," a complete severance in a marriage – what they called krithuth. This discussion is preserved for us in Sifrei Deva...
It's about a complete severing, a clean break. But what exactly does that mean? to a fascinating discussion from Sifrei Devarim, a collection of early Jewish legal interpretations ...
to a seemingly small, but hugely important, detail about divorce, or get (גֵּט), in Jewish tradition. We're looking at Sifrei Devarim, a collection of legal interpretations on the ...
