Naso

The rabbis of two thousand years were a real bunch of radicals. When they were confronted with something in the Torah that conflicted with the sense of values and ethics they learned from the Torah itself, they resolved the issue by deciding in favor of the values over the explicit law found in the...
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 What’s the cure for an overwhelming case of marital jealousy? This week’s Torah portion, Naso, recommends psychological torture and sexual humiliation. That is exactly what the Sotah ritual, the ritual of the bitter waters, amounts to. If a man suspected his wife of having gone astray, and he was caught up in a ruach...
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