Guiding Questions: Exodus 22

This is part of the Tanakh Yomi Project.

  1. Will regulations (laws) be meaningless unless they are enforced?
  2. Will everyone follow the way of tzedek because it is justice; or, is punishment for the violators, as described, necessary?
  3. Is the reason that, while Moses communicates the specifics, they are ascribed as deriving from Divinity, since the specifics are as vital as the generalities?
  4. What is mekhasheyfah?
  5. What does “lo teha’yeh” mean – and how is it different from “mot yumat?”
  6. Why does Torah describe the Jews as “geyrim” in Egypt?
  7. Why the special concern for the geyr, almanah and yatom?
  8. Are business arrangements governed by the norm of tzedek or are they “exempted?”
  9. What is meant by the phrase that God is “hanun”?

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Perek Yomi materials originally produced by the USCJ and Dr. Morton K. Siegel.
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