Parshat Mishpatim: Civil Law - Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] the name of this week's Pasha is Mishpatim which means judgment okay so the underlying premise of this parsha begins by telling us the same way the laws that you associate with Torah at Sinai know God don't let anything stand in your way that's from him all of what we're going to have in this week's passion which is what we would call civil law money damages all of the things having to do with concrete realities are just as much as from as his word so when you ask about like the difference between Judaism Christianity one of the things that stands out is they both have the ideal of love your neighbor but Judaism is going to say how do you show this love it has to be concrete it has to be real it has to do with how you treat anyone in society has to do with money it has to do with it has to do with your life okay so we're I'm going to do my best to see that we touch all of the challah hurt and the parsha but I doubt if we'll be able to do it so I'm giving you this warning to begin with it's very full it begins with something will seem archaic to you in ancient Israel slavery was permitted but not by the definitions that we would use when discussing other cultures in which slavery exists is there still slavery in the world today by the way absolutely where where do you think their slavery what that's uh slavery they could walk away from it a

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