DEUT875 We have already noted that the codes of law found in the Torah were primarily designed not as broad principles to be interpreted by judges but as practical rules of behavior to be studied and applied by ordinary men and women in the normal course of their everyday lives (See the comment of Rashi on Exodus 21:1). Only when the law as written does not give clear guidance in the particular case in question or when rival claims raise issues of interpretation should we go to court [Deuteronomy 17:8–10].