Posts Tagged: sermon Mishpatim
Sight and the Beauty of Torah
I have just returned from Israel, where I spent an exhilarating week with my family. During our short visit, we visited many places and met a...
Parshat Mishpatim: The Torah Commands Us to Love the Stranger and the Immigrant
There are Torah commands that leap off the page by their sheer moral power. So it is in the case of the social legislation in...
The Power of Empathy
William Ury, founder of the Harvard Program of Negotiation, tells a marvellous story in one of his books. A young American, living in Japan to study...
God Can Only Push Us So Far — The Rest Is Up to Us
In Yitro, we encountered the Aseret Hadibrot -- the “ten utterances” (or general principles) of Judaism. Now, in Mishpatim, come the details. Here is how they...
