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This d'var Torah was written for and first published on the Rabbis for Human Rights web site. “And the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai” …Numbers 1:1 Open? Or closed? Gather more information? Or is your mind made up already? Heart of stone? Or heart of flesh? This week we begin...
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  If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them...I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid; and I will remove evil beasts from the land, nor shall the sword go through your land. ...Leviticus 26:3, 6 Are the blessings...
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Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in its fruit; But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest to the land, a sabbath for the Lord; you shall not sow your field, nor prune your vineyard.  ...Leviticus 25:3-4 And you shall hallow...
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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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love thy neighbor You shall be holy; for I the Lord your God am holy.  ...Leviticus 19:2 You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind, but shall fear your God; I am the Lord. ...Leviticus 19:14 You shall not hate your brother in your heart; you shall surely...
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"And the Lord spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they came near the Lord, and died;"  ...Leviticus 16:1 Well, that's a cheerful way to start this week's Torah reading.  God is about to give Moses instructions to give Aaron, but it starts with a reminder of the...
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