This email dedicated by:
Ms. Belinda Martinez
Shevat 21, 5771 · January 26, 2011 |
General Overview:
| This week's reading, Mishpatim, details many laws, including laws related to slaves, personal injury, loans, usury, and property damage. The end of the portion speaks of the preparations the Israelites made before receiving the Torah at Mt. Sinai. |
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| THE PARSHAH |
| | Exodus 21:1-24:18 Indentured servants, goring oxen, partially repaid loans, fined thieves, the separation of meat and milk -- the laws, the technicalities, the wider applications, and the deeper spiritual import of these and 48 other mitzvot
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| COLUMNISTS |
| | When things begin to "make sense" In 1990, when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait to solve Iraq's financial problems, the world was outraged. That kind of move was not considered cool anymore. Something had changed in our moral perceptions.
By Rochel Holzkenner |  |
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| | Can Cooking be an Un-Kosher Act? Did you know that G-d would rather you cooked pork chops than a cheeseburger? That’s right. There is no biblical injunction against cooking pork—although eating it is absolutely forbidden... But it is forbidden to even cook meat together with milk.
By Mendel Kalmenson | |
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| | The intimate Jewish relationship with G‑d is expressed in the idea that G‑d Himself keeps the laws of the Torah. This teaching helps a person understand how closely we are connected with the Divine...
By Tali Loewenthal | |
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| FEATURED VIDEO |
| | Topics include: the kabbalistic meaning of "an eye for an eye," the prohibition against cooking a calf in its mother's milk as a precaution against spiritual narcissism, and why the Torah describes G-d as a "consuming fire."
By Chaim Miller | |
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| | Mishpatim Parshah Report This week’s Itche Kadoozy show is about the civil laws presented in Parshat Mishpatim. Or at least it would be if it wasn’t interrupted by a commercial for Larry Goldstein’s Law Firm.
Dovid Taub & Jonathan Goorvich | |
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| FEATURED AUDIO CLASSES |
| | Many of the tractates in the Talmud that deal with Jewish civil and damage laws are based on verses in this week's Torah portion -- Parshat Mishpatim. This class gives a deeper look at one of these laws: The goring Ox.
By Moshe New | |
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| | A five minute weekly Torah insight based on the wellsprings of Torah and Chassidut.
By J. Immanuel Schochet | |
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| | A five minute weekly Torah thought based on the teachings of Chassidut.
By Berel Bell | |
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