Do you tend to make decisions based on them being just and fair or do you do go along with what’s popular? In Parshat Mishpatim, we learn about all the ways to follow Jewish ethical traditions and morals to create a fair society. Watch this animated interpretation featuring social justice activist Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz.
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We know that giving is good. But how is interest like a snake bite? Parashat Mishpatim, sponsored by Hebrew Free Loan and narrated by Maharat Rori Picker Neiss, features the act of giving without interest — and a money-hungry serpent with other plans for the Israelites at Sinai.
It offers the question: When someone asks to borrow money, do we use that as an opportunity to help them, or do we use it as an opportunity to help ourselves, and make ourselves rich with tiny little snake bites of interest. Thanks to Hebrew Free Loan of San Francisco for working with us to produce this animated short which shows how this parsha informs their work.
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People of the book, listen up: author and professor David Henkin talks about writing in this parsha…in an attempt to discover what we need books for, anyway. At Sinai, the people say Na’aseh V’Nishma, and Moses, or Moshe, decides to write everything down in a scroll – why?
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