Shalom, this is Kee Tisa number 2. There is so many Mitzvots on this parasha and I am just giving you some in each video, but really worthwhile reading from Deuteronomy 21 to 25. We will start with 22 verse 10, which says, you are not allowed to plough and ox and ass together. But you can do a good job plowing, but if you put them together, one stronger, one is faster, you will hurt the two of them. The minute that you show that way, this is well in linen. And still today, traditional Jews will not wear like rule suits with linen and mechilah.
Now, what I am not really sure why the Torah has this rules, but there seem to be a whole category for rules about not mixing things improperly. And the Torah starts to teach us the important lesson about just keeping things separate. Sometimes, things need to be separate. But clearly in the case of the ox and the ass, we understand why. Then, I want to mention another very important principle on Chapter 23, verse 3. It says that no Moabites here shall be admitted to the congregation of the Lord.
Now, in Jewish law, a leguminous does not mean the chronic of 200 married people. Classically in men, the product of an incestuous or adulterous relationship and throughout Jewish history the rabbis took here great compassion for the unfortunate child of such a circumstance and try to figure out a way to not really realizing, it was a mom there. And we would train for example when we do Jewish weddings not to ascertain any information about the parents of the child having been married previously because when we might find out their moms are retried they want too. And that is the way the orthodox sometimes handle it. The conservative rabbis lately have in the last few years have decided just to completely abolish the category that are enforced in any way and so moms they root because the Talmud says and midwife says that God Christ in the case of the moms that we do not even enforce. Obviously, the goal was to stop an incest and adultery, but seemed unfair to punish the child, another great example of the evolution of Jewish Law.
I am going to do a separate video on Chapter 23, verse 13 following because it deals with some fundamental environmental laws, but I think I over off and overlooked as a passage and very important.
Chapter 24, I talked about in my video a Jewish divorce. This is a basic permission of the Torah to have divorce. It says that he rights for her a bill of divorce. There are some problems with that though especially for the orthodox since it says, he writes for her, my idea with that in my video on Jewish divorce. Then, there are many other important values, but a lot of it has to do fair labor practices. Of course, we have unions today and many laws protecting workers, but Torah says you must pay the worker on the same day, frees immediately and urgently dependent and other issues like that and do not turn your back on the stranger and the fatherless.
In addition, there are other many important business laws here. For example, in chapter 25, verse 13, it says, you shall not have your pouch, alternate ways, larger and smaller. You must have completely honest wage and completely honest measures, whoever does this things, whoever deals with dishonestly, who does the opposite of other doors, it is important to the know your God.
So those are some of the very important rules that needs to follow out of the over 70 that are in Parshat Kee Tisa.
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