DEUT1252 Bar Kappara expounded: "And a spade shall there be for you al azenecha" -- Read it not: "al azenecha" ["among your implements"], but al aznecha" ["upon your ears"]. If one hears something unseemly, let him place his finger in his ears (Ketuvoth 5a)

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DEUT1255 Rabbah b. Bar Chanah said in the name of R. Yochanan: It is permitted to meditate in the words of Torah everywhere except in the bathhouse and the privy, it being written: "And let your camp be holy" (Shabbath 150a)

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DEUT1259 This teaches us that illicit relations cause the Shechinah to depart (Sifrei)

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DEUT1269 This refers to verbal oppression (Sifrei)

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DEUT1270 This is an exhortation against homosexuality, it being written here: "and there shall not be a harlot" [masculine], and, elsewhere (I Kings 14:24): "And also a harlot [masculine] was in the land; they did according to all the abominations of the nations" [and homosexuality, specifically, is called "abomination" (Leviticus 18:22)] (Sanhedrin 54b)

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DEUT1279 Even the borrower transgresses because of: "You shall not give interest to your brother," (verse 21): "You shall not cause your brother to take interest," and (Leviticus 19:14): "And you shall not place a stumbling block before the blind" (Bava Metzia 78b)

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DEUT1281 It was taught: R. Shimon b. Yochai says: Whence is it derived if one is owed a manah by his neighbor, and he [the borrower] is not accustomed to greeting him, he is not permitted to do so [such a greeting being construed as "interest"]? From: "interest of any thing" [davar (also construable as "dibbur" ["speech"])] -- Even speech [as in the above instance] is forbidden (Bava Metzia 78b)

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DEUT1282 It was taught: R. Shimon says: Whence is it derived that he [the lender] should not tell him [the borrower]: Go and greet that man, or: Find out if that man has come from his place? From: "interest of any thing" ["davar" -- "dibbur"] (Sifrei)

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DEUT1294 The Rabbis taught: [A pledge to] charity is considered a vow, rendering one subject to the transgression of: "You shall not delay to pay it" (Erchin 6a)

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DEUT1304 This tells me only of what he uttered with his lips. Whence do I derive [the same halachah] for what he resolved in his heart? From (Exodus 35:5): "All who pledge in their heart" (Shevuoth 26b)

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