And if a man causes a blemish in his neighbor; as he has done, so shall it be done to him; Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done back to him. ...Leviticus 24:19-20 An eye for an eye,...
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The other day I got an e-mail from my daughter Heather, who is away in college in California. She wrote “ OK, so my friend was asking how to say 'live in the moment' in Hebrew. I don't know if they have a similar saying in Hebrew, but could you translate 'live in the moment' for...
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This week's parsha orders the Kohen, a priest, not to marry a divorced woman or a convert. The Conservative movement's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards decided that encouraging endogamy (in-marriage) is so important it was worth overturning a commandment in the Torah. Back in 1950 the intermarriage rate was 6%. In 2000 it...
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