EXOD668 [This verse] The admonition is repeated some thirty-six times in the Torah. [Some count forty-six such passages, Bava Metzia 59b]. Obviously, the orphan, the widow, and stranger are not the only ones who are not to be wronged or mistreated. They are singled out merely because they are the most defenseless members of society. The same is true of the admonition "not to insult the deaf or place a stumbling block before the blind" [Leviticus 19:14]. They cannot protect themselves by responding in kind. They do not even know who wronged them. Resisting the temptation to take advantage of a fellow man when one can do it with impunity, verges, as we have previously pointed out, more on the moral than on the ethical. But the Torah goes beyond merely forbidding such abuse of the weak. It commands that provision be made that "they rejoice with you." [Deuteronomy 16:13–14]