Rabbi Ariel Naveh

Ethical Existence Is in the Details

D'Var Torah By: Rabbi Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi, Ph.D.

Through a web of seemingly disjointed scenarios, the Book of Deuteronomy is filled with large and small methodologies for preserving the possibility of ethical behavior even in the worst contexts.... Reading the Torah portion Ki Teitzei demands facing a battery of situations in which the average human being might not behave ethically, even in the smallest detail of life, and yet prescribes a way to be ethical nonetheless