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📜 Parashat Mishpatim

Exodus · portion 18 of 54 Exodus 21:1–24:18

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What happens this week?

After the Ten Commandments come many laws for a fair society: how to treat workers, how to return a lost animal — even an enemy’s — and how to judge honestly.

The Torah says: do not mistreat a stranger, because you were strangers in Egypt. The people answer, "We will do and we will listen," and Moses goes up the mountain for 40 days.

Read the full text in Hebrew and English on Sefaria ↗

Parashat Mishpatim quiz

  1. What should you do with a lost animal?

  2. Why should we be kind to strangers?

  3. What did the people answer?

  4. How long was Moses on the mountain?

🕯️ For the Shabbat table

What does it mean to be fair?

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