Mark Goldfarb

Respecting the Criminal

D'Var Torah By: Rabbi Melanie Aron

Maybe it’s the images of Abu Ghraib that remain in my mind’s eye, or the current failures of our prison system, but this year in reading the seventy plus laws of Parashat Ki Teitzei what struck me was the section on corporal punishment, Deuteronomy Chapter 25:1–3. “When there is a