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The ancient rabbis wrestled with these questions too, especially when interpreting some of the trickier passages in the Torah. to a fascinating corner of Jewish law, specifically f...
In Sifrei Devarim, a collection of legal interpretations related to the Book of Deuteronomy, we encounter a fascinating discussion about the stoning of a rebellious son, a sorer um...
In fact, Jewish tradition grapples with this idea of removing evil, of cleansing the community, in some pretty direct ways. We find this in the Sifrei Devarim, a collection of lega...
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 ancient rabbis grappled with this very idea when interpreting the Torah’s laws about lost objects and helping others. It all boils down to this: What level of loss compels us t...
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...
It might sound dry, but hidden within the laws about seeds and vineyards, we find surprising insights into how our ancestors understood intention, nature, and the very act of creat...
It's a passage that grapples with issues of consent, culpability, and self-defense in a way that might surprise you. The text starts by addressing a particularly grim scenario: a m...
Because "you were a stranger in his land." It sounds simple enough, but Rabbi Elazar ben Azaryah digs deeper. The Egyptians, let's be real, weren’t exactly acting out of pure altru...
