The Torah’s 613 Mitzvos, Commandments, are divided into three basic categories: testimonies, statutes, and judgements. The last of these are civil laws which any society needs to survive—but these, too, are part of Torah. Our reading this week begins, “These are the judgements which you will place before them…” [Ex. 21:1]. Rash”i (Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki) notes that […]
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