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Mishpatim – 5777
Mishpatim – 5777
Mishpatim 5777
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.
Beshalach – 5777
Beshalach – 5777
Beshalach – 5777
Beshalach – 5777
Beshalach – 5777
Beshalach 5777
JUMPING DOWN THE STAIRCASE
In this week’s Parsha, B’shalach, the Jewish people find themselves on the beach of the Red Sea with the entire Egyptian army behind them ready to destroy them. They turn to HaShem in prayer along with Moshe, their leader. HaShem tells Moshe that they prayed enough “Tell the people to travel into the Sea.” The implication was that when they will travel into the Sea they will be saved as in fact happened. The leaders of the people followed by their people literally marched into the sea until they could go no further and then the sea split forming a floor of dry land.
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