- Will regulations (laws) be meaningless unless they are enforced?
- Will everyone follow the way of tzedek because it is justice; or, is punishment for the violators, as described, necessary?
- 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?
- What is mekhasheyfah?
- What does “lo teha’yeh” mean – and how is it different from “mot yumat?”
- Why does TorahRefers to the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, the Tanakh, also called the Five Books of Moses, Pentateuch or the Hebrew equivalent, Humash. This is also called the Written Torah. The term may also refer to teachings that expound on Jewish tradition. describe the Jews as “geyrim” in Egypt?
- Why the special concern for the geyr, almanah and yatom?
- Are business arrangements governed by the norm of tzedek or are they “exempted?”
- What is meant by the phrase that God is “hanun”?
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