Ki Tetze
Deuteronomy · 8articles
Parashat Ki Tetze - Seventh Aliyah
The seventh aliyah of Ki Tetze holds together the poor hired worker, the stranger, the orphan and the widow, the limit on lashes and the weights of the marketplace, and closes with the memory of Amalek, who struck precisely at the stragglers left behind.
Parashat Ki Tetze - Sixth Aliyah
The sixth aliyah of Ki Tetze deals with power that has a limit: a first year of marriage from which no one is taken to the army, tools of livelihood that may not be taken as a pledge, the severity of kidnapping, and a lender who may not enter the borrower's house.
Parashat Ki Tetze - Fifth Aliyah
The fifth aliyah of Ki Tetze deals with boundaries. First with boundaries of property, what may be eaten from another's vineyard and what already counts as taking, and then with the boundaries of a marriage bond that has ended.
Parashat Ki Tetze - Fourth Aliyah
The fourth aliyah of Ki Tetze distinguishes historical memory from hatred for all generations, demands holiness even in the most bodily details, protects a slave who has escaped, and closes with the power of speech.
Parashat Ki Tetze - Third Aliyah
The third aliyah of Ki Tetze opens with a parapet on the roof, moves to laws of separation, to injury to a good name and to the laws of a young woman, and closes with who enters the congregation. The common line is responsibility and boundaries.
Parashat Ki Tetze - Second Aliyah
The second aliyah of Ki Tetze moves between a death sentence, returning a lost object, helping someone who has fallen, and sending away the mother bird, and ties them with one line: a person's power is limited.
Parashat Ki Tetze - First Aliyah
The first aliyah of Ki Tetze looks like three unrelated commandments. Rashi reads them as one sequence: a captive taken in desire, a hated wife, and a son judged for what he will become.
Parashat Ki Tetze - Insights and Questions
Ki Tetze looks like a pile of unrelated commandments, but it asks one question: what does a moral person look like precisely when he holds power, money or an advantage over someone else?
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