This week, Rabbis Elliott Kukla and Reuben Zellman
examine parashat Ki Teitze, proving that clothes
most certainly don’t make the person.
For all those who have ever struggled with how to discipline children’s bad behavior, this week’s parashah, Ki-Teitze, offers an easy answer: stone them to death! (Deut. 21:18-21)
Thankfully, Jews have recognized for over a thousand years that this is an unacceptable solution to a common problem. In fact, we learn in the Talmud (Sanhedrin 71a) that this apparent commandment of the Torah was never once carried out. Our Sages refused to interpret this verse literally, as it conflicted with their understanding of the holiness of each and every human life.MORE>
Moses enumerates many laws
that relate to topics of family relationships,
interpersonal ethics, forbidden mixtures,
and sexuality.
By Nancy Reuben
In continuing his last speech, Moses delivers specific rules on family relationships. "If a beautiful woman is taken captive in war, you may take her as your wife. However, you must wait a month before you take her, so that she may weep for her mother and her father. If you do not take pleasure in her, you must let her go as she wishes, and neither sell her for money, nor take advantage of her.
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from Torah Topics for Today
from Hillel
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from Jewish Outreach Institute
from AJWS
from CLAL
from Social Action
from Women of Reform Judaism
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Torah Institute
Ki Teitzei
The haftarah selection is from
Isaiah 54:1-10.
"In slight anger, for a moment,
I hid My face from you;
But with kindness everlasting
I will take you back in love."
(Isaiah 54: 8)
Jewish World News
August, 30, 2012
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