Ki Tetze

The Torah Provides Guidance on Building Codes and Avoiding Potential Dangers

By AARON DORFMAN

We must think deeply about whether we have acted to prevent others’ wrongdoing and we must begin the work of constructing parapets, of institutionalizing precautions against destruction, willful or accidental. It’s hard work, but if we truly want to avoid “standing idly by the blood our neighbor;” it must be done.

The Positive and Negative of Social Justice

By RABBI BRADLEY SHAVIT ARTSON

When people use violence to impose evil, limiting our response to platitudinous condemnations and hand-wringing is a moral abdication. Those unwilling to use force against evil are passive partners with evil.

Fair Day’s Pay for Fair Day’s Work

By RABBI CHERYL PERETZ

The wages of sin: The sin of withholding a worker’s wage.

You Must Not Remain Hidden to Yourself

By RABBI MICHAEL LATZ

This is a directive from the Torah – “You must not remain hidden to yourself” – not from a self-help book. But then again, the Torah is a self-help scroll and an inspiration for those who engage in tikkun olam (repairing the world).