Parshat Mishpatim

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A collection of civil and criminal laws covering slavery, damages, lending, and the covenant ceremony at Sinai. Exodus 21:1-24:18.

What Is the Meaning of to You? to You It Is Fitting

Midrash Tanchuma Midrash Tanchuma, Masei 10

(Numb. 34:2), “This is the land that shall fall to you as an inheritance.” What is the meaning of “to you?” To you it is fitting.29Numb. R. 23:11. [The matter] is comparable to a k...

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Lord God, You Have Begun There Is a Parable to What Is This Comparable

Midrash Tanchuma Midrash Tanchuma, Vaetchanan 5

"Lord God, You have begun" (Deuteronomy 3:24): There is a [relevant] parable: To what is this comparable? To a king that saw an orphaned woman and sought to marry her. He sent to p...

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Move to the Sides Before the Likeness of God

Midrash Tanchuma Midrash Tanchuma, Eikev 4

All of the commandment that I command you today (Deuteronomy 8:1): This is what the verse stated (Proverbs 7:2), "Keep My commandments and live," since David said (Psalms 17:8), "G...

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Another Interpretation as These Nations That You Are About to

Midrash Tanchuma Midrash Tanchuma, Shoftim 11

Another interpretation: "As these nations that you are about to dispossess, etc. but you not like this to you" (Deuteronomy 18:14). It is speaking about Avraham, as he saw through ...

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