by Shlomo Ressler | Aug 11, 2013 | 5:6-Parshat Ki Tetzei, Devarim / Deuteronomy
General Overview: This week’s reading, Ki Teitzei, contains 74 commandments, more mitzvot than any other Torah portion. Some of the commandments discussed: the law of the rebellious son, the obligation to bury the dead without undue delay, the requirement to...
by Shlomo Ressler | Aug 31, 2012 | 5:6-Parshat Ki Tetzei, Devarim / Deuteronomy
Aliya Summary: We are forbidden to withhold or delay a worker’s wages. Relatives’ testimony is inadmissible in a court of law. Various mandatory gifts for the poor are discussed. The procedure for corporal punishment is outlined. The mitzvah of Levirate...
by Shlomo Ressler | Aug 31, 2012 | 5:6-Parshat Ki Tetzei, Devarim / Deuteronomy
Aliya Summary: More mitzvot: A newlywed man is exempt from military service for a full year. It is forbidden to accept utensils used to prepare food as loan security or to forcibly take a debtor’s possessions as collateral, and a poor man’s security must...
by Shlomo Ressler | Aug 30, 2012 | 5:6-Parshat Ki Tetzei, Devarim / Deuteronomy
Aliya Summary: This Aliya details the right of field workers to eat from the produce they are harvesting. The Torah then briefly discusses marriage and the bill of divorce. A divorced couple cannot remarry if the woman has been remarried to another man (and divorced...
by Shlomo Ressler | Aug 29, 2012 | 5:6-Parshat Ki Tetzei, Devarim / Deuteronomy
Aliya Summary: Some commandments discussed in this Aliya: maintaining pure and hygienic army encampments, impurity resulting from seminal emissions, prohibition against prostitution, prohibition against lending with interest, and the obligation to honor vows. In...
by Shlomo Ressler | Aug 28, 2012 | 5:6-Parshat Ki Tetzei, Devarim / Deuteronomy
Aliya Summary: Some commandments discussed in this Aliya: Building a safety fence around a flat roof; the prohibitions against sowing mixtures of seeds, plowing with a mixed pair of animals, or wearing a garment which contains a mixture of wool and linen (shatnez);...
