Tagged ‘Shoftim’
Parashat Shoftim
By Rabbi Judith Edelstein Within the last few weeks I, and most likely many of you, have been barraged with email messages asking for donations to the presidential campaign. Initially I read the messages with a skeptical eye, planning to … Continue reading »
Parashat Shoftim
Ki ata ba el-ha’aretz, asher Adonai Elohekha notein lekha-lo tilmad la’asot, keto’avot hagoyim haheim, “When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations” … Continue reading »
Parashat Shoftim
This week we are privileged to read a parashah that covers a multitude of disparate subjects, including the laws of royalty and magicians, but is introduced by the subject relating to the parashah’s title: Shoftim – Judges. In the first … Continue reading »
Parashat Shoftim
By Simon Rosenbach If you are of a certain age, you remember Superman, the television show with George Reeves, Noel Neill, Jack Larson, and, among others, Phillips Tead as the delightful Professor Pepperwinkle . . . but I digress. Of … Continue reading »
Parashat Shoftim
By Halina Rubinstein The last section of this week’s parashah describes the strange ritual of the eglah `arufah, the ‘broken heifer.’ When a person is found dead in the middle of a field and the killer is not known, the … Continue reading »
Parashat Shoftim
By Eleanor Pearlman The first verse of Parashat Shoftim (Deut. 16:18) sets a tone of much of what follows in the parashah: ‘Shoftim v’shotrim teiten l’kha b’khol sh`arekha Asheir Adonai Elohekha notein l’kha-lish‘vatekha V’shaftu et ha-`am mishpat tzedeq’ ‘Judges and … Continue reading »
