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So, let's dive in. The text starts with a seemingly simple question: when the Torah speaks of "two wives," does that only mean two? What if there are more? The answer, surprisingly...
Here, we're grappling with a seemingly specific scenario: a man with two wives, one loved and one "hated" – though "less favored" might be a kinder, more accurate translation. The ...
Like, "You shall not leave his body overnight on the eitz" – that's from the Book of Deuteronomy, and it’s something the rabbis grappled with intensely. What does it really mean? T...
The Torah, in the book of Devarim (Deuteronomy), actually has something to say about this. It might surprise you. We find in Sifrei Devarim, a collection of early legal commentarie...
The Torah, in its beautiful and often surprising way, actually addresses this very question. to a fascinating little corner of Jewish law, found in Sifrei Devarim, a collection of ...
Take, for example, a seemingly straightforward verse about vineyards. Specifically, we’re looking at Sifrei Devarim 230, part of the legal commentary on the Book of Deuteronomy. At...
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...
We’re going to dive into one tiny, but fascinating corner of those rules today, all thanks to a passage in the Sifrei Devarim, a collection of legal interpretations on the Book of ...
We're going to dive into one of those today, a passage from Sifrei Devarim, a collection of legal commentaries on the Book of Deuteronomy. It deals with kilayim (כִּלְאַיִם), a Heb...
