Shoftim
What goes around comes around
In this week's parsha's Bnai Yisroel are preparing to go into Israel and Hashem commands them to destroy the Canninites. The main theme is Justice and the concept of reciprocal enmeshment is discussed.
If witnesses testify that Ned Flanders killed someone (making him worthy of the death penalty) and the witnesses are later found to have been unable to have witnessed the alleged event, the witnesses receive the death penalty. They are called Adim Zommim, conspiring witnesses.
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A stranger is found, let’s go kill a cow At the end of this week's parsha is the story of the eglah arufa, when a dead body is found in between two cities. First the distance is measured and the city that is closest must perform the eglah arufah ritual.
The leaders of the town take a calf that has never worked into a valley and break its neck. They then proclaim that they did not murder the individual and did not witness his murder.
What kind of ceremony is this? We have a dead body lying in a field and we decide to go break a cow's neck? What about gathering clue, or interviewing witnesses? A killer is loose and all we can do is kill a cow? Read More
In this week's parsha's Bnai Yisroel are preparing to go into Israel and Hashem commands them to destroy the Canninites. The main theme is Justice and the concept of reciprocal enmeshment is discussed.
If witnesses testify that Ned Flanders killed someone (making him worthy of the death penalty) and the witnesses are later found to have been unable to have witnessed the alleged event, the witnesses receive the death penalty. They are called Adim Zommim, conspiring witnesses.
Read More
A stranger is found, let’s go kill a cow At the end of this week's parsha is the story of the eglah arufa, when a dead body is found in between two cities. First the distance is measured and the city that is closest must perform the eglah arufah ritual.
The leaders of the town take a calf that has never worked into a valley and break its neck. They then proclaim that they did not murder the individual and did not witness his murder.
What kind of ceremony is this? We have a dead body lying in a field and we decide to go break a cow's neck? What about gathering clue, or interviewing witnesses? A killer is loose and all we can do is kill a cow? Read More
