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Torah Studies: Mishpatim

Adapted by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks; From the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe

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After Sinai; Making the Torah a Part of Ourselves

By Eli Touger

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Likkutei Sichot: Mishpaitm

Translated by Eliyahu Touger

Mishpotim - Serving the Master

By Robert Kremnizer

Mishpatim: Two Stories of Sinai

Likkutei Sichos, Volume 26, Mishpatim 2

By The Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson

The Torah begins describing the preparations for the Giving of the Torah in Parshas Yisro. The next Torah reading, Parshas Mishpatim, commences with the enumeration of the Torah’s civil laws. Afterwards, the Torah seemingly returns to a description of the preparations for the Giving of the Torah. Why does the Torah depart from the chronological order when relating these passages?

Mishpatim: What Followed the Revelation at Sinai

Likkutei Sichos, Volume 3, Mishpatim

By The Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson

At Sinai, the people “saw what is [usually] heard and heard what is [usually] seen.” The spiritual and the G‑dly, intangibles that can’t be seen and can be appreciated only through hearing – was able to be “seen,” accepted by the Jewish people with the certainty and concrete perception engendered by sight. They saw G‑dliness! What was usually seen – our material world – was then only heard; it felt distant, as it were, and could be conceived of only abstractly.

Mishpatim: A Talmudic Intricacy And Its Spiritual Counterpart

Likkutei Sichos, Volume 31, Mishpatim 1

By The Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson

Throughout our nation’s spiritual history, we find scholars who were masters of the Talmud and the Jewish legal tradition, yet wrote little, if anything, about ethics or philosophy and were not overly involved in our mystical tradition. Conversely, there have been others who focused primarily on Jewish mystical knowledge, making minimal, if any, written contributions to Jewish law and practice.