“No one may take a mill or even an upper millstone as collateral for a loan, because that would be taking as collateral the debtor’s very means of sustenance.”-Deuteronomy 24:6 Verse 6 deals with what to do when a Hebrew lends a very poor person some money or food and demands some type of collateral […]
D24-4: The Real Reason Why A Newly Married Hebrew Man Was Exempt From Military Service For A Year
“If a man has recently married his wife, he is not to be subject to military service; he is to be free of external obligations and left at home for one year to make his new wife happy.”-Deuteronomy 24:5 From verse 5 of Deuteronomy 24, we finally move away from the theme of adultery that […]
D24-3: What Is The ONLY Legitimate Reason For Divorce?
“Suppose a man marries a woman and consummates the marriage but later finds her displeasing, because he has found her offensive in some respect. He writes her a divorce document, gives it to her and sends her away from his house. She leaves his house, goes and becomes another man’s wife; but the second husband […]
D24-2: How The Lord Put An End To The ‘Wife-Swapping’ Prevalent In The Middle East
“Suppose a man marries a woman and consummates the marriage but later finds her displeasing, because he has found her offensive in some respect. He writes her a divorce document, gives it to her and sends her away from his house. She leaves his house, goes and becomes another man’s wife; but the second husband […]
D24-1: A Perfect Example Of Why We Also Need The Oral Torah To Understand The Written Torah
Today we begin Deuteronomy Chapter 24. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James version, click here. From today, we’re going to be dealing with the dicey topic of a Hebrew man handing out a writ of divorce to his wife. In Hebrew, this is called a GET. Now here’s the thing. […]
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