DEUTERONOMY — 12:28 good Torah Book & Portion, Book of Deuteronomy, Re'eh (Deuteronomy 11:26–16:17), Source Book Keys, TEMIMAH-DEUTPage(s): 95 DEUT585 What is "what is good," and what is "what is just"? R. Akiva says: What is good in the eyes of Heaven and what is just in the eyes of man (Sifrei) SHOW FULL EXCERPT
DEUTERONOMY — 12:28 heed Torah Book & Portion, Book of Deuteronomy, Re'eh (Deuteronomy 11:26–16:17), Source Book Keys, TEMIMAH-DEUTPage(s): 95 DEUT586 This teaches us that all who are not in the class of learning are not in the class of doing. (Sifrei) SHOW FULL EXCERPT
DEUTERONOMY — 12:28 heed Torah Book & Portion, Book of Deuteronomy, Re'eh (Deuteronomy 11:26–16:17), Source Book Keys, TEMIMAH-DEUTPage(s): 95 DEUT587 What is the intent of "all"? To teach that a "slight" commandment should be as beloved by you as a "weighty" one (Sifrei) SHOW FULL EXCERPT
DEUTERONOMY — 13:7 incite Torah Book & Portion, Book of Deuteronomy, Re'eh (Deuteronomy 11:26–16:17), Source Book Keys, TEMIMAH-DEUTPage(s): 98 DEUT621 "Inciting," generally, if with food and drink. (Chullin 4b) SHOW FULL EXCERPT
DEUTERONOMY — 13:7 incite Torah Book & Portion, Book of Deuteronomy, Re'eh (Deuteronomy 11:26–16:17), Source Book Keys, TEMIMAH-DEUTPage(s): 98 DEUT622 R. Yochanan said in the name of R. Shimon b. Yehotzadak: Where is the prohibition against being alone with those who are sexually forbidden intimated in the Torah? "If there shall incite you your brother, the son of your mother." Now does the son of the mother incite, and not the son of the father? The verse, then, is an illusion to the halachah that a son may be alone with his mother, but [otherwise] it is forbidden to be alone with those who are sexually forbidden (Kiddushin 80b) SHOW FULL EXCERPT
DEUTERONOMY — 13:9 inclined Torah Book & Portion, Book of Deuteronomy, Re'eh (Deuteronomy 11:26–16:17), Source Book Keys, TEMIMAH-DEUTPage(s): 99 DEUT625 Because it is written (Leviticus 19:18): "And you shall love your neighbor as yourself," I might think that you should love this, one, too; it is, therefore, written: "You shall not be inclined towards him." Or I might think, because it is written (Exodus 23:5): "Unload shall you unload [an animal] with him," that you should unload for this one, too; it is, therefore, written: "and you shall not hearken to him" (Sifrei). SHOW FULL EXCERPT
DEUTERONOMY — 13:9 look Torah Book & Portion, Book of Deuteronomy, Re'eh (Deuteronomy 11:26–16:17), Source Book Keys, TEMIMAH-DEUTPage(s): 99 DEUT626 What is the intent of this? I might think, because it is written (Leviticus 19:16):"Do not abide the [spilling of the] blood of your neighbor," that you should not abide the spilling of this one's blood, too; it is, therefore, written: "And your eyes should not look mercifully upon him" (SIfrei) SHOW FULL EXCERPT
DEUTERONOMY — 13:9 pity Torah Book & Portion, Book of Deuteronomy, Re'eh (Deuteronomy 11:26–16:17), Source Book Keys, TEMIMAH-DEUTPage(s): 99-100 DEUT631 R. Chamma b. Chanina said: From the teachings of R. Chiyya b. Abba I learned: Whence is it derived that one may not argue in defense of an inciter [to idolatry]? From: "and you shall not pity, and you shall not shield him" (Sanhedrin 29a) SHOW FULL EXCERPT
DEUTERONOMY — 13:12 all Torah Book & Portion, Book of Deuteronomy, Re'eh (Deuteronomy 11:26–16:17), Source Book Keys, TEMIMAH-DEUTPage(s): 100-1 DEUT637 The Rabbis taught: "The inciter must be publicly denounced, it being written: "And all of Israel shall hear and see" (Sanhedrin 89a) SHOW FULL EXCERPT
DEUTERONOMY — 13:13 hear Torah Book & Portion, Book of Deuteronomy, Re'eh (Deuteronomy 11:26–16:17), Source Book Keys, TEMIMAH-DEUTPage(s): 101 DEUT639 But it is no mitzvah to press an inquiry. I might then think that one need not pursue it [even if he did hear]; it is, therefore, written (verse 15): "And you shall inquiry, and you shall search out, and you shall ask well" (Sifrei) SHOW FULL EXCERPT