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Shoftim: Leaders
Deuteronomy 16:18–21:9
The fifth section of the Book of Deuteronomy continues Moses’ second farewell address to the Jewish people. It opens as Moses instructs the Jewish people to appoint judges (Shofetim, in Hebrew) throughout the Land of Israel to try cases and uphold the law. It continues with Moses’ instructions regarding the other leaders of the Jewish people: the king, the priests, and the prophets.
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Sixth Reading: Deuteronomy 19:14–20:9
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Daily Quote
Five years is the age for the study of Scripture. Ten, for Mishnah. Thirteen, for the obligation to observe the mitzvot. Fifteen, for the study of Talmud. Eighteen, for marriage. Twenty, to pursue [a livelihood]. Thirty, for strength, Forty, for understanding. Fifty, for counsel. Sixty, for sagacity. Seventy, for elderliness. Eighty, for power. Ninety, to stoop. A hundred-year-old is as one who has died and passed away and has been negated from the world.
–Ethics of the Fathers 5:22
The Parshah
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