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THE VEIL OF NATURE

This week’s Parsha, Mishpatim, is packed with many laws and their many details. Our Parsha begins with laws dealing with ownership, responsibility, liability, tort, civil issues and so on.

Every society requires such laws and create them to satisfy their needs. One might suggest that the Torah gives us these laws to satisfy our societal needs. HaShem, in His kindness saved us the trouble of having our Rabbis create these laws and gave them to us already done. If this was the case there would be no need to emphasize the source of these laws. The only issue of import would be what these laws are. If society will be able to run smoothly it is irrelevant who wrote them. However, our Sages teach us otherwise.