Ki Teitzei in a Nutshell

I was born august 10 1945 and my barmitzvah was Ki Teitzei and haftorah was as you know mentioning barren women, and in 1958 no one told me what was the meaning of barren. It happened at Hendon Synogogue with the great Reverend Hardman, look up to see what he saw, it will shock you. A bit of perhaps useful or useless info, my late fathers first name was Lipman (Lippie). Most usual, lots of Lipman surnames but not come across a lipman first name Reply

No one is addressing the fact that some of these mitzvot are horrible and seem immoral. Stoning a son to death because he is disobedient? Stoning a woman to death because of suspected adultery? Compensating the father monetarily when the daughter is hurt? Reply

These summaries are great! Thank you so much for posting them! Reply

To Yirmiyahu The most straightforward difference would be that a Kedeishah is a woman who is a regular prostitute, while a Zonah could be any woman who had illegitimate relations with a man, regardless of whether this is a regular practice or a one-time affair. Anything given her for the affair cannot be used for sacrificial purposes. The root KDS means set aside, and it could be for good, i.e. something holy, or for not good, something objectionable. Nachmanides says that in Hebrew, words are often used to mean the opposite of their actual meaning, so that Kedeishah means un-holy.
The Torah does not speak explicitly about conversion at all. It uses the phrase of a foreigner who sojourns with you, which means that a member of another nation comes to live with Israel. The person's conversion is assumed. When would we start counting three generations? From when they come to join the Jewish people, i.e. convert. Reply

How to read This is one of those Parshas which should be read beginning with the end as the last statement are the reasons behind the last statement. The real question this Parsha addresses is "Why does Amalek exist?" Amalek exists because he never received instruction in the 74 mitzvot. The goal of the 74 mitzvot is to inculcate order, balance, discipline and justice into the life of the individual. With discipline would come discernment and the ability to make clear distinctions. This is what Amalek and his kind lacked besides a fear of God. Reply

A couple of questions I have a couple of questions regarding this parsha.

1) Why in one pasuk is a prostitute referred to as a 'Kedeisha' and the next pasuk referred to as a 'Zonah'. How is Kedeisha related to Kadosh (since it has the same shores)

2) Why does the Torah not specifically say the third generation of egyptians or edomites from the generation that converted? Reply

Ki Tietzei How about a proven case of marital infidelity? Reply

Mother. bird and her children it is so interesting to me that today a friend told me, not knowing about this mother bird instruction that she had been very upset during the building of her new home that a workman discovered a robin's nest in a nearby tree. This discovery would have necessitated destruction of the nest given proposed plans. my friend Marlene was distraught but to hold up everything to wait for these eggs to hatch would be costly. A workman had an idea, carefully removed the nest and put it in another tree. The mother bird was initially distraught but found the nest.
It was a mitzva to save these fledgling robins! Reply

Mother Bird When G_d destroyed the world in Noah's day, he left a bit of humanity left to start over. In the instruction about the mother bird, there is the similar thought of leaving someone to start over the family/breed again. No matter how much His people have gone through, they have not been annihilated completely. Sometimes we struggle to see the compassion, but it is there. Reply

Wasn't Ruth Already A Spiritual Jewess What comes to my mind is that perhaps HaShem considered Ruth a Jewess already, as she had accepted Him by heartfelt faith (come into Judah by sincere faith in Him), and had formerly been the wife of Naomi's son. Reply

Elul Why so many mitzvahs in the month of Elul in this Parsha, does these mitzvahs have to do something with forgiveness and compassion? Reply

interesting about the male of Moabite descentt because Ruth, a Moabite, did become Jewish, married Boaz, and her story has the lineage of the Messiah within it as in The Book of Ruth.

I am thinking we need to update some of these but others do make perfect sense today.

The sending away of the mother bird is about love but it also makes me very sad, to think of her children being taken. I think I would rather, Go Without. Reply