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Covenant & Conversation — Mishpatim 5786

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — Mishpatim 5786. Темы: family_education, health_mind, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, здоровье, психология, стресс, health, mental, בריאות, נפש, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ In the Details On the opening phrase of Mishpatim: “And Three remarkable propositions are being these are the laws you are to set before set out here which have shaped the them,” (Shemot 21:1) Rashi comments: contours of Judaism ever since. “And these are the laws that you shall set The rst is that just as the general before them.” principles of Judaism (Asseret HaDibrot means not “Ten Commandments” Wherever the word “these” is used, it but “Ten Utterances” or “Ten Overarching signals a discontinuity with what has Principles’) are Divine, so are the details. There are those You should not think, ‘I will teach them a who believe that what is holy in Judaism is section, or law, two or three times until its broad vision, never so compellingly they know the words verbatim, but I will expressed as in the Decalogue at Sinai. The not take the trouble to make them truth however is that God is in the details: understand the reason and its “Just as the former were given at Sinai, so signi cance.’ Therefore the Torah states these were given at Sinai.” The greatness of “that you shall set before them” like a fully Judaism is not simply in its noble vision of a laid table with everything ready for free, just, and compassionate society, but in eating. It means (in an age in Justice in Judaism ows from the which slavery was taken for granted – it experience of injustice at the hands of the was not abolished in Britain or the United Egyptians, and the God-given challenge to States until the nineteenth century) letting create a radically di erent form of society a slave go free after seven years, or in Israel. Slavery is not what you are or how you were When you give testimony in a lawsuit, do born, but something that has happened to not pervert justice by siding with the crowd, you for a while, and from which you will and do not show favouritism to a poor man one day be liberated. You know what teach them a section or law two or three it is to be a stranger, for you yourselves were times

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Covenant & Conversation

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13 февраля 2026 г.

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Темы: family_education, health_mind, parsha_commentary