Questions tagged [ki-teitzei]
The weekly Torah portion of Ki Teitzei (Deuteronomy 21:10–25:19)
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Are men with dead or divorced wives before the first year still exempt
According to Deuteronomy 24:5 a man is exempt from public service for a year when he marries a wife. What does Halacha say in the case a man marries a woman and divorced her or she dies before that ...
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Is working different species non agriculturally allowed
The Torah in Deuteronomy 22:10 prohibits plowing two different species together. My question is, is it permissible to have two different species work something that isn’t for the purpose of plowing to ...
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Is taking an Eshet Yefat To'ar allowed today?
The Torah provides that a Jewish soldier may, by following a specific process, take a woman captive as his wife and convert her to Judaism as an אשת יפת תואר (Devarim 21:10-14).
Is this provision ...
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First-born in a case of two wives
In the beginning of parshas כי תצא (Devarim 21:15-17), the Torah commands that in a case of one man having two wives who both bear him sons - that the first-born, even if it is from the wife he loves ...
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Who wrote the "Malbim" on the end of Devarim?
At the end of the Malbim's commentary to Devarim 22:21, there is a note which says:
{מכאן עד סדר נצבים לא מצאנו באמתחת כתבי יד הגאון המחבר ז״ל וחבל על דאבדין. אמנם אנחנו קבצנו ובארנו על פי דרכו אשר ...
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Does the meaning change among variants of Deut. 23:2?
As noted elsewhere on the site, there is a spelling variation in the fourth word of the following verse:
לֹֽא־יָבֹ֧א פְצֽוּעַ־דַּכָּ֛א*(ברוב ספרי אשכנז דַּכָּ֛ה) וּכְר֥וּת שׇׁפְכָ֖ה בִּקְהַ֥ל ...
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Why are "Remember and don't forget Amalek" two separate commandments?
Why did the Rambam list these as two distinct commandments:
P189- Remember what Amalek did to the Israelites. [Deut. 25:17]
N59- Don't forget what Amalek did to the Israelites. [Deut. 25:19]
Aren't ...
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How can the Mishnah derive that lashes exempt kares, from a pasuk speaking only about one liable for lashes?
The Mishnah in Makkot 23a says
"All those liable to receive karet who were flogged in court were exempted from their karet
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as it is stated with regard to one liable to receive ...
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Status of children born from a yefat toar who was converted to judaism after the 30 day period
In parshat Ki Teietze it talks about the yefat torah.
If after the 30 days if he still wants to marry her, she is converted to judaism, then he can marry her.
Question: Is this conversion a regular ...
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Dog that was exchanged for a lamb [duplicate]
לֹֽא־תָבִיא֩ אֶתְנַ֨ן זוֹנָ֜ה וּמְחִ֣יר כֶּ֗לֶב בֵּ֛ית ה
אֱלֹ-הֶ֖-יךָ
(Devarim 23:19)
Why a dog that was exchanged for a lamb is not allowed to be brought as an offering? Why are dogs singled out ...
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How can a rapist in the field be executed, if there were no witnesses?
The pasuk in Devarim 22:25 says
But if a man finds the betrothed girl in the field, and the man overpowers her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die.
Now, the man can ...
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What is the Na’arah claiming in a case where her husband truthfully accuses her of immorality?
Devarim 22:13-21 discuss a case in which a husband accuses his newlywed 12-12.5-year-old wife as having cheated on him in the period between Kiddushin and Nisuin, making her a married woman at the ...
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What does the Gemara mean that anything given to the heart, it says by it “and you will fear your G-d”?
Kiddushin 32b:
יכול יעצים עיניו כמי שלא ראהו ת"ל תקום ויראת דבר המסור ללב נאמר בו (ויקרא יט, יד) ויראת מאלהיך
I might have thought he can close his eyes like one who did not see [the elder]; ...
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Can a mamzer, Ammonite, or Moabite enter the temple after ten generations?
Does Deuteronomy 23:3-4 mean these people can never enter the temple or must count 10 generations forward before they can enter the temple. The scripture is a bit ambiguous.
לֹא־יָבֹ֥א מַמְזֵ֖ר ...
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How do we know that one must give up his life for any immoral relationship?
Sanhedrin 74a teaches that one must give up his life rather than be intimate with a forbidden relationship. It derives this from Devarim 22:26, in the context of a man who raped a young woman:
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