EXODUS — 23:5 help Torah Book & Portion, Book of Exodus, Mishpatim (Exodus 21:1-24:18), Source Book Keys, TEMIMAH-EXODPage(s): 217 EXOD813 If he unloaded and loaded, unloaded and loaded, even four or five times, he is obliged [to repeat the process if necessary], it being written: "help shall you help" [connoting recurrent helping] (Bava Metzia 32a). SHOW FULL EXCERPT
EXODUS — 23:5 help Torah Book & Portion, Book of Exodus, Mishpatim (Exodus 21:1-24:18), Source Book Keys, TEMIMAH-EXODPage(s): 218 EXOD814 If the owner went and sat down [doing nothing], telling him "Since it is your mitzvah, if you want to unload, unload," he is exempt, it being written: "with him." But if the owner were old or sick, he is obligated [to perform the mitzvah by himself] (Bava Metzia 42a). SHOW FULL EXCERPT
EXODUS — 23:5 help Torah Book & Portion, Book of Exodus, Mishpatim (Exodus 21:1-24:18), Source Book Keys, TEMIMAH-EXODPage(s): 217-8 EXOD815 This tells me [that he must help] only if its owner is with him. Whence do I derive [that he must do so even] if his owner is not with him [but the animal is alone]? From "help shall you help" -- in any event (Bava Metzia 31a). SHOW FULL EXCERPT
EXODUS — 23:6 incline Torah Book & Portion, Book of Exodus, Mishpatim (Exodus 21:1-24:18), Source Book Keys, TEMIMAH-EXODPage(s): 218 EXOD823 It was taught: Abba Chanan says in the name of R. Eliezer: If an evildoer and an observant Jew are being judged by you, do not say: Since this one is an evildoer, I shall incline the judgment against him. In this respect it is written: "You shall not incline the judgment of your poor one in his quarrel" -- [The reference is to] one who is poor in mitzvoth (Mechilta). SHOW FULL EXCERPT
EXODUS — 23:6 quarrel Torah Book & Portion, Book of Exodus, Mishpatim (Exodus 21:1-24:18), Source Book Keys, TEMIMAH-EXODPage(s): 218 EXOD826 "in his quarrel" [i.e., in judgment] you do not incline, but you do incline [in favor of a poor man] in respect to leket, shikchah, and peah [i.e., If in doubt whether something in the province of these mitzvoth [i.e., gleanings and corners of the field, forgotten produce -- AJL] belongs to you or to him, decide in his favor] (Yerushalmi Peah 4:5). SHOW FULL EXCERPT
EXODUS — 23:7 falsehood Torah Book & Portion, Book of Exodus, Mishpatim (Exodus 21:1-24:18), Source Book Keys, TEMIMAH-EXODPage(s): 220 EXOD848 The Rabbis taught: Whence is it derived that a judge should not hear the plea of one litigant before the other arrives, and that one litigant should not voice his plea to the judge before the other arrives? From "From a thing of falsehood you shall keep far" (Shevuoth 31a). SHOW FULL EXCERPT
EXODUS — 23:7 falsehood Torah Book & Portion, Book of Exodus, Mishpatim (Exodus 21:1-24:18), Source Book Keys, TEMIMAH-EXODPage(s): 220 EXOD849 The Rabbis taught: Whence is it derived that if two arrive for a litigation, one dressed in rags, and the other in finery of a hundred maneh, the second is told: Dress yourself as he is dressed or dress him as you are dressed? From: "From a thing a falsehood you shall keep far" (Shevuoth 30b). SHOW FULL EXCERPT
EXODUS — 23:8 blinds Torah Book & Portion, Book of Exodus, Mishpatim (Exodus 21:1-24:18), Source Book Keys, TEMIMAH-EXODPage(s): 222 EXOD860 Let you say: I will take money and not pervert judgment, it is written: "for a bribe blinds" (Mechilta). SHOW FULL EXCERPT
EXODUS — 23:8 bribe Torah Book & Portion, Book of Exodus, Mishpatim (Exodus 21:1-24:18), Source Book Keys, TEMIMAH-EXODPage(s): 222 EXOD866 The Rabbis taught: "And a bribe you shall not take" -- Not only a monetary bribe, but even a verbal one is forbidden, it not being written: "And profit you shall not take" (Kethuvoth 105a) SHOW FULL EXCERPT
EXODUS — 23:8 bribe Torah Book & Portion, Book of Exodus, Mishpatim (Exodus 21:1-24:18), Source Book Keys, TEMIMAH-EXODPage(s): 221 EXOD867 What is "shochad"? "shehu chad" [i.e., "He (the bribed) is one" (with the briber)]. Once he accepts a bribe from him, he becomes predisposed towards him, and he is, virtually, the other himself -- and one is not inclined to fine himself liable (Kethuvoth 105a). SHOW FULL EXCERPT