What is the Torah’s Big Picture? The answer can be achieved by making sense of a one particular perplexing commandment from the Torah Portion Ki Teitzei. Before doing so, one must understand that the Pentateuch, some opine, was intended to be a nation’s law. To accomplish this goal, the Torah is crafted with commandments thatContinue reading “The Bigger Picture: Ki Teitzei”
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Vayigash’s Ten Commandments’ Moment: The Real Estate Polemic?
But the land shall not be sold permanently, because the land is mine, because you are aliens and visitors with me! Leviticus 25:23 While Real Property is not directly addressed within the Ten Commandments, theologically, it is. A Ten Commandments’ real estate reference leads us to a socio-economic controversy that remains relevant in present dayContinue reading “Vayigash’s Ten Commandments’ Moment: The Real Estate Polemic?”
The Ten Commandments Project 