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Ki Tetzeh


A bird in hand is worth two in the bush


This week’s parsha contains a fascinating  Mitzvah (commandment). Jews are instructed to send away the mother bird when taking eggs or the young from a nest. One reason for this is to show mercy towards the mother bird so she does not have to watch her young being taken.  Read More



Don’t Fence Me In

In this week's parsha Moshe continues with his farewell address. He enumerates over 74 mitzvot in the parsha. One fascinating mitzvah is the commandment to build a fence around your roof when you build a new house. One way of understanding this mitzvah is at a homiletic or nonliteral level. The text is literal but it also has a metaphoric level, referred to as drash. Read More











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