Deuteronomy, the Book of

Most of us safeguard our computers from contracting harmful viruses, but are we as concerned about our own spiritual contamination?

Laws protect our safety, ensure rights, resolve conflicts and bind us as a society. Without the underpinning of both righteousness and mercy, however, the resulting society we could create would be neither just nor holy.

In Hebrew, the word tzedek, which means “justice,” also means “righteousness.” Perhaps the dual use of the word “justice” means that we cannot pursue “justice” without also being “righteous.”

Deuteronomy 16:18–21:9

Who returns when the battle ends?

Anxious Parshah

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