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After Exodus 22:4-26 Some of our best laws are here – If a fire goes forth and finds thorns… …then congratulate the fire forliving above its expectations andfinding what it needs. If a man gives his neighbor a donkeyfor safekeeping… I’ve been dreaming of receivingdonkeys with all the trust implied.I’ve been imagining a safe donkey-shelterin […]
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Unscrolled: A Rabbinical Student’s Take on Parashat Mishpatim
February 10th, 2021 
Awake Goy Religion is a thing forced upon children by the adults in their lives. To this day, my brother and I recall with horror how, at the command of our parents, we endured High Holiday services in uncomfortable formal shoes, bored by a relentless stream of inscrutable words and exhausted by senseless exhortations to stand up […]
Table for Five: Mishpatim
February 10th, 2021 Awake Goy One verse, five voices. Edited by Salvador Litvak, the Accidental Talmudist An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot, -Ex. 21:24 Rivkah SlonimEducational Director, Rohr Chabad Center for Jewish Student Life, Binghamton University Some of the most famous in our Torah, the words […]
