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  Ki-Seitzei

  5 years ago

  Wine & Dine – The “reward” for mitzvos

  When you send away the mother-bird . . . when you build a new house and you make a fence around your roof . . . don’t sow a mixture in your vineyard . . . don’t ..

  Written by Rabbi Moshe Kormornick
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• Ki-Seitzei

  7 years ago

  Fight for the right

  “When you go to war against your enemies… if you will notice an attractive lady, you may take her captive to be your wife” [1]. The reason being that it is recognised ..

  Written by Rabbi Daniel Leeman
• Ki-Seitzei

  7 years ago

  Returning to Israel

  The Vilna Gaon brought down a kabballa that all parshaiot in the book of Devarim represent a different century between the years 5000 and 6000. It works out that ..

  Written by Anonymous
• Ki-Seitzei

  7 years ago

  Parashas Ki Seitzei – Resisting the Irresistible

  Parashas Ki Seitzei – Resisting the Irresistible This week’s sedra is Parashas Ki Seitzei and there exists a vast plethora of interesting mitzvahs and commandments ..

  Written by Daniel Sandground
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  7 years ago

  Parshas Ki Seitzei: Sympathy For Mistaken Jealousy

  The pasuk says in Devorim 22:10 “Do not plow together with an ox and a donkey”. This is one of several forms of the prohibition of Kilayim – mixing ..

  Written by Benjamin A Rose
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  7 years ago

  Ki Seitzei

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  Written by Anonymous
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  7 years ago

  The most precious lost property

  One of the mitzvos found in Ki Seitzei is returning lost property. The first of the four psukim (22:1) on this subject reads ‘do not watch the ox of your friend ..

  Written by d fine
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  7 years ago

  Amonim & Mo’avim out!

        Whereas certain other nations are allowed to marry into Judaism (if they have converted) after a certain number of generations, when it comes ..

  Written by d fine
• Ki-Seitzei

  7 years ago

  Divorce split

  The concept of divorce makes its first appearance in our sedra (24:1). The word for a divorce document is a get (spelled gimmel, tes). The Vilna Ga’on notes that ..

  Written by d fine
• Ki-Seitzei

  7 years ago

  Avoiding argument; message of shatnez

  The majority of the sedra ki tetze deals with things that should not be mixed/put together eg kilaim, shatnez, etc. The Torah tells us not to wear shatnez (22;11)- ..

  Written by D Fine