How does Torah teach us to use power without abusing it? In this episode, Zvi Hirschfield and Rabbi Dr. Meesh Hammer-Kossoy explore Parshat Mishpatim as the Torah’s first sustained encounter with law—and what it reveals about human power and moral…
Tanakh, Torah, Shemot (Exodus), Mishpatim, Podcast series, Pardes Parsha Podcast
This podcast is sponsored in memory of Morris L. Kramer, a beloved friend and an ohev Yisrael How does the Torah balance law with compassion? In this episode, Zvi Hirschfield and Rabbanit Nechama Goldman Barash explore Parshat Mishpatim, examining its…
Tanakh, Torah, Shemot (Exodus), Mishpatim, Podcast series, Pardes Parsha Podcast
This week’s parsha is primarily concerned with laws meant to order and structure our interactions and society, including a prohibition against cursing judges and the king. In light of this prohibition, Sefi Kraut, Pardes Director of Mahloket Matters, asks us…
Tanakh, Torah, Shemot (Exodus), Mishpatim, Podcast series, Pardes Parsha Podcast
Parshat Mishpatim tells us that we should distance ourselves from lying. Join Pardes faculty members Yiscah Smith and Rabbi Dr. Howard Markose for an exploration of why human beings lie, similarities between the Torah and Hammurabi’s Code, and Divine compassion.…
Tanakh, Torah, Shemot (Exodus), Mishpatim, Podcast series, Pardes Parsha Podcast
Parashat Mishpatim 5782: God and Government Description: Is our public discourse too aggressive? Are our public institutions vulnerable to attack? In this class, Alex Israel addresses a verse (22:27) in Parashat Mishpatim which warns of attacks on Government figures. Why…
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The essence of Judaism seems to be encapsulated by a broad reading of the first two of the Ten Commandments: There is one God, and God has no body. With that as a basis of faith, we may be unnerved…
Tanakh, Torah, Shemot (Exodus), Mishpatim, Podcast series, Pardes Parsha Podcast
Ironically, our Parsha opens with the laws of a Jewish slave. Ironic because Israel has just been freed from slavery in Egypt, and the Torah is already addressing a time in which they own slaves of their own! Learn all…
Educator resources, Meaning-making, Tanakh, Torah, Shemot (Exodus), Mishpatim
Standing at the foot of Sinai should be the ultimate expression of freedom, and yet Parsha Mishpatim begins with the laws of the Hebrew slave. In this podcast, Rabbi Mike Feuer discusses why that might be, along with an exploration…
Tanakh, Torah, Shemot (Exodus), Mishpatim, Podcast series, Pardes Parsha Podcast
In this week’s Parsha, the Jewish people are given a very detailed code of social laws, which begin with the laws governing a Hebrew slave. In this podcast, we will examine how the Torah allows for the institution of a…
Tanakh, Torah, Shemot (Exodus), Mishpatim, Podcast series, Pardes Parsha Podcast
The parsha opens with this long list of mitzvot on a variety of different topics ranging from how to deal with damaged property to holiday observance. We then see that Moshe tells all these new laws to Bnei Yisrael and…
Educator resources, Meaning-making, Tanakh, Torah, Shemot (Exodus), Mishpatim
In last week’s parsha, God revealed His presence from the heavens as He uttered the Ten Commandments. This week, in Parshat Mishpatim, we see a different side of God: “And these are the laws that you shall place before them”…
Educator resources, Meaning-making, Tanakh, Torah, Shemot (Exodus), Mishpatim
In this podcast, Rabbi Alex Israel explains the wonderful history of the half-shekel annual tax, from its origins as a method to take census in Moses’ time, to a strange coin discovered by Nachmanides when he arrived in Eretz Yisrael…
Tanakh, Torah, Shemot (Exodus), Mishpatim, Podcast series, Pardes Parsha Podcast
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