“Do not take advantage of a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether that worker is a fellow Israelite or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.”-Deuteronomy 24:14 Before moving forward with verse 14 of Deuteronomy 24, keep in mind that all these words of Deuteronomy are essentially Moses expounding on the Law […]

In my last post, I demonstrated how the principles behind the Torah given at Sinai were actually embedded in the earlier stories of the Patriarchs. Today I want to show you how in Deuteronomy 24, we have laws directly connected to each of the four generations of Abraham. This will help shed some light on […]

“When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, do not go into their house to get what is offered to you as a pledge.  Stay outside and let the neighbor to whom you are making the loan bring the pledge out to you.  If the neighbor is poor, do not go to sleep with […]

“When you make any kind of loan to your neighbor, you are not to enter his house to take his collateral.  You must stand outside, and the borrower will bring the collateral outside to you.”-Deuteronomy 24:10-11 Alrighty, we’re chugging right along through Deuteronomy 24 and have now arrived at verses 10-13. These verses are all […]

“When there is an outbreak of tzara‘at, be careful to observe and do just what the cohanim, who are L’vi’im, teach you. Take care to do as I ordered them. Remember what Adonai your God did to Miryam on the road after you left Egypt.”-Deuteronomy 24:8-9 We just got done discussing the rebellion of Miriam […]