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Post by alon on Sept 4, 2020 21:21:37 GMT -8
Name of Par’shah- 49.3a Ki Tetze, When You Go Out
Par’shah- Deu 21:10 – 22:30
D’rash: Verses 21:10-14 are not applicable.
Inheritance Rights of the Firstborn
Deuteronomy 21:15-17 (ESV) “If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him children, and if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved, then on the day when he assigns his possessions as an inheritance to his sons, he may not treat the son of the loved as the firstborn in preference to the son of the unloved, who is the firstborn, but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the firstfruits of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his. A man’s children by any woman are still his, and they should share in his all he has.
A Rebellious Son
Deuteronomy 21:18,21a (ESV) “If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them,[then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, and they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’] Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, Again, we cannot stone our children today. However we can disown them for just cause. We’d also disinherit them, because this mitzvah would take precedence over the one of including all children in the inheritance. It wasn’t that long ago that your families good name could mean everyone’s survival. It still may effect you in ways you never suspect. So allowing one rebellious child to jeopardize the entire family is irresponsible.
[Note: the bracketed and italicized part will be removed in the collated mitzvoth.]
A Man Hanged on a Tree Is Cursed
Deuteronomy 21:22-23b (ESV) “And if a man has committed a crime punishable by death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for a hanged man is cursed by God. The Rabbinical interpretation of this is we should hang those stoned to death on a tree. Technically correct, but more than this I think we must understand the underlying principle here. One main purpose of punishing criminals is that we make an example of them. However leaving them to hang there and rot goes beyond an example; it is state sponsored terrorism. Bury the condemned man promptly before sunset and move on.
Property Laws
Deuteronomy 22:1 (ESV) “You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep going astray and ignore them. You shall take them back to your brother." Return lost property.
Deuteronomy 22:2 (ESV) And if he does not live near you and you do not know who he is, you shall bring it (the lost animal or object) home to your house, and it shall stay with you until your brother seeks it. Then you shall restore it to him. Care for lost property until it can be restored to its rightful owner. Today that might mean taking it to the authorities.
Deuteronomy 22:4 (ESV) You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen down by the way and ignore them. You shall help him to lift them up again. Help others care for and protect their property. I see this as going past just helping an animal in distress. That’s important, as the beast could injure itself in its efforts to get up. But more than this, in rural areas where say there is a fire, everyone turns out to fight it as a community. You’d also help free an animal in distress, say caught in a fence.
Various Laws Concerning Social Responsibility
Deuteronomy 22:5 (ESV) “A woman shall not wear a man's garment, nor shall a man put on a woman's cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God." Cross-dressing is not allowed. And I might say this could apply to assuming each others roles unless necessary (death or divorce of a spouse, one spouse refusing to assume their role, etc.). Do not usurp the role of the other spouse
Deuteronomy 22:6-7 (ESV) “If you come across a bird's nest in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young. You shall let the mother go, but the young you may take for yourself, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long." Do not kill both a mother and her young. It would be counterproductive, destroying your food chain. However since the context is clearly about useful animals, I do not think this would apply to pests such as rats and mice.
Deuteronomy 22:1 (ESV) “When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring the guilt of blood upon your house, if anyone should fall from it." Make your property safe.
Deuteronomy 22:9 (ESV) “You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole yield be forfeited, the crop that you have sown and the yield of the vineyard." Some say this applies only to ha’eretz, others everywhere. It is one of those instructions we don’t understand the reason for as well, which tends to influence people’s decisions on whether it applies to us. It makes it difficult for me to decide: does this apply here? Does it apply only to vineyards, or all plants? So I am going to withhold judgement until I collate these laws/instructions. I’ll try to make a determination when I have all the evidence gathered.
To further complicate this, it could be another metaphor for, say mixed marriages by either race, nationality, culture, or religion. My wife is German/English, was raised Jewish, and is now Christian, almost (but nor quite) Charismatic. I am Messianic, ex old school Southern Baptist and a true American Redneck. Our marriage qualifies on all those accounts (though not as strongly on the racial one), and if you think there have not been problems, allow me to disabuse you of that opinion! Our marriage has survived only because we were married after 30, and so were both mature (kind of), and we both have a very strong sense of commitment. But had I married her at 20, we probably wouldn’t have seen 21. As it is, we almost didn’t see 41. So I see more here than just planting crops.
Your thoughts?
Deuteronomy 22:10 (ESV) You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together. Obviously this won’t work, but I think the instruction here goes beyond just plowing: 2 Corinthians 6:14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. Ancient Hebrews tended to speak allegorically or metaphorically, and the lessons in their statements/instructions/laws could hold many lessons in all areas of our lives.
Can we think of other areas where this might apply?
Deuteronomy 22:11 (ESV) You shall not wear cloth of wool and linen mixed together. Popular wisdom is the fibers will shrink at different rates and the cloth be ruined; and this is true. But is it really talking about cloth here? Mark 2:21 No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the patch tears away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made. Say a much younger person marries an older one. Wouldn’t they be unequally yoked? Whether the marriage just puckers, or tears apart, there would be troubles ahead. So I believe these two (this and the previous) instructions to be connected.
Deuteronomy 22:11 (ESV) “You shall make yourself tassels on the four corners of the garment with which you cover yourself." The law of tzitziyot repeated. But we are still talking about garments here; Numbers 15:38-39a “Speak to the people of Israel, and tell them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a cord of blue on the tassel of each corner. And it shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the Lord," So could this be telling us to remember these instructions concerning our responsibility to our families and communities? In fact, I see this as a common thread (pardon the pun) running through this entire parashah.
Laws Concerning Sexual Immorality
vss 13-22 concern the accusation that a new bride is not a virgin. But since we don’t inspect or keep the evidence of her virginity (bedsheets) any more, or even ask the question, this passage does not apply. It should, obviously. But we are looking at laws/instructions that apply to us today. So read it for yourself and decide. And you can post your thoughts here if you like.
Deuteronomy 22:22 (ESV) “If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel." “Thou shalt not commit adultery.” Simple.
Deuteronomy 22:23-25 (ESV) “If there is a betrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her, then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor's wife. So you shall purge the evil from your midst. “But if in the open country a man meets a young woman who is betrothed, and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die." According to the laws of kiddushin, an engaged couple is as though they were married, they just have not consummated the union yet. So should they lie with another, they have the same as committed adultery. However note if there was evidence or even the possibility of rape she would be innocent. He would not be.
Deuteronomy 22:28-29 (ESV) “If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found, then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her. He may not divorce her all his days.” The Rabbis did not seem to think to “seize her” meant rape. While it does sound that way to western ears, I’d have to agree with them. I find it inconceivable that a woman should be sentenced to live the rest of her life with her rapist. But if a man convinces a woman to lie with him, he should be liable to marry her.
Deuteronomy 22:30 (ESV) “A man shall not take his father's wife, so that he does not uncover his father's nakedness." You should neither lust for nor lay with your fathers wife. Not just talking about incest here, but if he remarried this is the same.
Par’shah- Deu 21:10 – 22:30
D’rash: Verses 21:10-14 are not applicable.
Inheritance Rights of the Firstborn
Deuteronomy 21:15-17 (ESV) “If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him children, and if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved, then on the day when he assigns his possessions as an inheritance to his sons, he may not treat the son of the loved as the firstborn in preference to the son of the unloved, who is the firstborn, but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the firstfruits of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his. A man’s children by any woman are still his, and they should share in his all he has.
A Rebellious Son
Deuteronomy 21:18,21a (ESV) “If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them,[then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, and they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’] Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, Again, we cannot stone our children today. However we can disown them for just cause. We’d also disinherit them, because this mitzvah would take precedence over the one of including all children in the inheritance. It wasn’t that long ago that your families good name could mean everyone’s survival. It still may effect you in ways you never suspect. So allowing one rebellious child to jeopardize the entire family is irresponsible.
[Note: the bracketed and italicized part will be removed in the collated mitzvoth.]
A Man Hanged on a Tree Is Cursed
Deuteronomy 21:22-23b (ESV) “And if a man has committed a crime punishable by death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for a hanged man is cursed by God. The Rabbinical interpretation of this is we should hang those stoned to death on a tree. Technically correct, but more than this I think we must understand the underlying principle here. One main purpose of punishing criminals is that we make an example of them. However leaving them to hang there and rot goes beyond an example; it is state sponsored terrorism. Bury the condemned man promptly before sunset and move on.
Property Laws
Deuteronomy 22:1 (ESV) “You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep going astray and ignore them. You shall take them back to your brother." Return lost property.
Deuteronomy 22:2 (ESV) And if he does not live near you and you do not know who he is, you shall bring it (the lost animal or object) home to your house, and it shall stay with you until your brother seeks it. Then you shall restore it to him. Care for lost property until it can be restored to its rightful owner. Today that might mean taking it to the authorities.
Deuteronomy 22:4 (ESV) You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen down by the way and ignore them. You shall help him to lift them up again. Help others care for and protect their property. I see this as going past just helping an animal in distress. That’s important, as the beast could injure itself in its efforts to get up. But more than this, in rural areas where say there is a fire, everyone turns out to fight it as a community. You’d also help free an animal in distress, say caught in a fence.
Various Laws Concerning Social Responsibility
Deuteronomy 22:5 (ESV) “A woman shall not wear a man's garment, nor shall a man put on a woman's cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God." Cross-dressing is not allowed. And I might say this could apply to assuming each others roles unless necessary (death or divorce of a spouse, one spouse refusing to assume their role, etc.). Do not usurp the role of the other spouse
Deuteronomy 22:6-7 (ESV) “If you come across a bird's nest in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young. You shall let the mother go, but the young you may take for yourself, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long." Do not kill both a mother and her young. It would be counterproductive, destroying your food chain. However since the context is clearly about useful animals, I do not think this would apply to pests such as rats and mice.
Deuteronomy 22:1 (ESV) “When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring the guilt of blood upon your house, if anyone should fall from it." Make your property safe.
Deuteronomy 22:9 (ESV) “You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole yield be forfeited, the crop that you have sown and the yield of the vineyard." Some say this applies only to ha’eretz, others everywhere. It is one of those instructions we don’t understand the reason for as well, which tends to influence people’s decisions on whether it applies to us. It makes it difficult for me to decide: does this apply here? Does it apply only to vineyards, or all plants? So I am going to withhold judgement until I collate these laws/instructions. I’ll try to make a determination when I have all the evidence gathered.
To further complicate this, it could be another metaphor for, say mixed marriages by either race, nationality, culture, or religion. My wife is German/English, was raised Jewish, and is now Christian, almost (but nor quite) Charismatic. I am Messianic, ex old school Southern Baptist and a true American Redneck. Our marriage qualifies on all those accounts (though not as strongly on the racial one), and if you think there have not been problems, allow me to disabuse you of that opinion! Our marriage has survived only because we were married after 30, and so were both mature (kind of), and we both have a very strong sense of commitment. But had I married her at 20, we probably wouldn’t have seen 21. As it is, we almost didn’t see 41. So I see more here than just planting crops.
Your thoughts?
Deuteronomy 22:10 (ESV) You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together. Obviously this won’t work, but I think the instruction here goes beyond just plowing: 2 Corinthians 6:14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. Ancient Hebrews tended to speak allegorically or metaphorically, and the lessons in their statements/instructions/laws could hold many lessons in all areas of our lives.
Can we think of other areas where this might apply?
Deuteronomy 22:11 (ESV) You shall not wear cloth of wool and linen mixed together. Popular wisdom is the fibers will shrink at different rates and the cloth be ruined; and this is true. But is it really talking about cloth here? Mark 2:21 No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the patch tears away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made. Say a much younger person marries an older one. Wouldn’t they be unequally yoked? Whether the marriage just puckers, or tears apart, there would be troubles ahead. So I believe these two (this and the previous) instructions to be connected.
Deuteronomy 22:11 (ESV) “You shall make yourself tassels on the four corners of the garment with which you cover yourself." The law of tzitziyot repeated. But we are still talking about garments here; Numbers 15:38-39a “Speak to the people of Israel, and tell them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a cord of blue on the tassel of each corner. And it shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the Lord," So could this be telling us to remember these instructions concerning our responsibility to our families and communities? In fact, I see this as a common thread (pardon the pun) running through this entire parashah.
Laws Concerning Sexual Immorality
vss 13-22 concern the accusation that a new bride is not a virgin. But since we don’t inspect or keep the evidence of her virginity (bedsheets) any more, or even ask the question, this passage does not apply. It should, obviously. But we are looking at laws/instructions that apply to us today. So read it for yourself and decide. And you can post your thoughts here if you like.
Deuteronomy 22:22 (ESV) “If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel." “Thou shalt not commit adultery.” Simple.
Deuteronomy 22:23-25 (ESV) “If there is a betrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her, then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor's wife. So you shall purge the evil from your midst. “But if in the open country a man meets a young woman who is betrothed, and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die." According to the laws of kiddushin, an engaged couple is as though they were married, they just have not consummated the union yet. So should they lie with another, they have the same as committed adultery. However note if there was evidence or even the possibility of rape she would be innocent. He would not be.
Deuteronomy 22:28-29 (ESV) “If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found, then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her. He may not divorce her all his days.” The Rabbis did not seem to think to “seize her” meant rape. While it does sound that way to western ears, I’d have to agree with them. I find it inconceivable that a woman should be sentenced to live the rest of her life with her rapist. But if a man convinces a woman to lie with him, he should be liable to marry her.
Deuteronomy 22:30 (ESV) “A man shall not take his father's wife, so that he does not uncover his father's nakedness." You should neither lust for nor lay with your fathers wife. Not just talking about incest here, but if he remarried this is the same.
