SHABBAT SHALOM (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Ki Tetseh You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep slipping away And ignore them. You shall surely return them to your brother … And thus shall you do for his donkey and thus shall you do for Any lost thing of brother's that may be lost by him that you find. You shall not be able to ignore it. (Devarim 22:1, 3)   And thus shall you do for his donkey and thus shall you do for his...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Ki Tetseh Should you go out to battle against your enemies and the Lord your God give him in your hand and you take captives from him, and you see among the captives a woman of comely features and you desire her and take her for yourself as wife (Devarim 21:10)   Take her for yourself as wife – The Torah is making a concession to human weakness , for if the Holy One does not...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Ki Tetseh You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox falling by the way and ignore him. You shall surely raise them up with him. (Devarim 22:4) You shall not see your brother's donkey. In Parashat Mishpatim (Shemot 23:5) the text reads "If you see your enemy's donkey" whereas here we read "your brother's donkey". This comes to teach that if one was your enemy he should return to being your brother in helping to...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Ki Tetseh When a man takes a wife and is intimate with her, and it happens that she does not find favor in his eyes because he discovers in her an unseemly matter, and he writes for her a bill of divorce and places it into her hand, and sends her away from his house. (Devarim 24:1)   Beit Shammai say: A man should not divorce his wife unless he has found her guilty of some unseemly...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Ki Tetseh IF A BIRD'S NEST CHANCES BEFORE YOU ON THE ROAD, ON ANY TREE, OR ON THE GROUND, AND FLEDGLINGS OR EGGS, IF THE MOTHER IS SITTING UPON THE FLEDGLINGS OR UPON THE EGGS, YOU SHALL NOT TAKE THE MOTHER UPON THE YOUNG.YOU SHALL SEND AWAY THE MOTHER, AND YOU MAY TAKE THE YOUNG FOR YOURSELF, IN ORDER THAT IT SHOULD BE GOOD FOR YOU, AND YOU SHOULD LENGTHEN YOUR DAYS. (Devarim 22:6-7)...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Ki Tetseh YOU SHALL NOT WITHHOLD THE WAGES OF A POOR OR DESTITUTE HIRED WORKER, OF YOUR BROTHERS OR OF YOUR STRANGERS WHO ARE IN YOUR LAND WITHIN YOUR CITIES. YOU SHALL GIVE HIM HIS WAGE ON HIS DAY AND NOT LET THE SUN SET OVER IT, FOR HE IS POOR, AND HE RISKS HIS LIFE FOR IT, SO THAT HE SHOULD NOT CRY OUT TO THE LORD AGAINST YOU, SO THAT THERE SHOULD BE...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Ki Tetseh WHEN A MAN HAS TAKEN A BRIDE, HE SHALL NOT GO OUT WITH THE ARMY OR BE ASSIGNED TO IT FOR ANY PURPOSE; HE SHALL BE EXEMPT ONE YEAR FOR THE SAKE OF HIS HOUSEHOLD, TO GIVE HAPPINESS TO THE WOMAN HE HAS MARRIED. (Devarim 24:5)   He shall be exempt one year for the sake of his household – The passage in parashat Shoftim refers to someone who is engaged to...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Ki Tetseh IF, ALONG THE ROAD, YOU CHANCE UPON A BIRD'S NEST, IN ANY TREE OR ON THE GROUND, WITH FLEDGLINGS OR EGGS AND THE MOTHER SITTING OVER THE FLEDGLINGS OR ON THE EGGS, DO NOT TAKE THE MOTHER TOGETHER WITH HER YOUNG. SEND THE MOTHER AWAY, AND TAKE ONLY THE YOUNG, IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY FARE WELL AND HAVE A LONG LIFE. (Devarim 22:6-7)   Send the mother away – a Scriptural Decree...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parashat Ki Tetseh A MAN TAKES A WOMAN AND COHABITS WITH HER. THEN HE TAKES AVERSION TO HER AND MAKES UP CHARGES AGAINST HER AND DEFAMES HER… (Devarim 20:19)   Takes aversion – Rabbi Yishmael says: Come and see what hatred can cause – it brings him to lashon ha-ra . From this you can say: a person commits a minor sin, he ends up committing a serious sin; he transgresses love your neighbor...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parashat Ki Tetseh WHEN YOU BUILD A NEW HOUSE, YOU ARE TO MAKE A PARAPET FOR YOUR ROOF, THAT YOU NOT PUT BLOOD-GUILT ON YOUR HOUSE IF SOMEONE FALLING FALLS FROM IT. (Devarim 22:8)   Is Everything in God's Hands? "If someone falling falls from it" – this person deserved to fall, but even so let his death not be caused by you, because merit is awarded through the meritorious and retribution through the guilty. (Rashi,...