e-Booklets

This website organizes commentary excerpts by Torah verse.  This “eBooklet” series gathers numerous -- but not all -- excerpts from the website regarding "prominent" and subject-related verses.  For more information, please see any eBooklet's Introduction.  The eBooklets can be downloaded singly, in groups, or as a complete set. 

LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR - Leviticus 19:18 - #1A

Thou shalt not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD. (JPS, Tanakh, 1917)

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LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR | Leviticus 19:18 - #1B

Thou shalt not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people,
but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD. (JPS, Tanakh, 1917)

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LET US MAKE MAN IN OUR IMAGE - Genesis 1:26-28 - #2

And God said: ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over
all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.’

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OPEN YOUR HAND Deuteronomy 15:7-11 - #3

If there be among you a needy man, one of thy brethren, within any of thy gates, in thy
land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand
from thy needy brother...

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TALEBEARING/STANDING “IDLY BY” Leviticus 19:16 - #4

Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people; neither shalt thou
stand idly by the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD. JPS Tanakh, 1917

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SIN CROUCHES AT THE DOOR Genesis 4:6-10 - #5

And the LORD said unto Cain: ‘Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? 7 If
thou doest well, shall it not be lifted up? and if thou doest not well, sin coucheth at the door;
and unto thee is its desire, but thou mayest rule over it.’

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HEAR, O ISRAEL Deuteronomy 6:5-7 - #6

HEAR, O ISRAEL: THE LORD OUR GOD, THE LORD IS ONE. And thou shalt love the LORD
thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might...

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REBUKE THY NEIGHBOUR Leviticus 19:17 - #7

Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart; thou shalt surely rebuke thy neighbour, and
not bear sin because of him.

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KEEP FAR FROM FALSEHOOD Exodus 23:1-2, 7 - #8

Thou shalt not utter a false report; put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous
witness...

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DO NOT FOLLOW YOUR HEART; YOU SHALL NOT COVET Numbers 15:39, Exodus 20:14/ Deuteronomy 5:18 - #9

And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and
remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye go not about after
your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go astray...

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HONORING PARENTS Exodus 20:12; Leviticus 19:3; Deuteronomy 5:16, 21:18-21 - #10

Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the
LORD thy God giveth thee...

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KEEP THE WAY OF THE LORD Genesis 18:19 - #11

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his
household after him, that they may keep the way of the LORD, to do righteousness and
justice; to the end that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which He hath spoken of
him...

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STUMBLING-BLOCK BEFORE THE BLIND Leviticus 19:14 - #12

Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling-block before the blind, but thou shalt fear
thy God: I am the LORD...

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NOT GOOD TO BE ALONE; THEY SHALL BE ONE FLESH Genesis 2:18, 2:22-24 - #13

And the LORD God said: ‘It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a
help meet (sic?) for him.’...

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LOVE THE STRANGER Exodus 22:20-23/Deuteronomy 10:18-19 - #14

And a stranger shalt thou not wrong, neither shalt thou oppress him; for ye were
strangers in the land of Egypt...

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WHOSOEVER SHEDDETH MAN’S BLOOD; TAKE HEED TO THYSELF Genesis 9:5-6; Deuteronomy 4:9 - #15

And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require
it; and at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, will I require the life of
man...

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RETURN YOUR ENEMY’S OX; HELP HIM UNBURDEN IT Exodus 23:4-5, Deuteronomy 22:1-4 - #16

If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him
again...

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WILL NOT THE JUDGE OF THE WORLD DO JUSTLY? EXODUS 18:23-27, 32-33 - #17

And Abraham drew near, and said: ‘Wilt Thou indeed sweep away the righteous with the
wicked?

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SET APART; CHOOSE LIFE! Leviticus 18:3-5, 20:24-26; Deuteronomy 30:19-20 - #18

And Abraham drew near, and said: ‘Wilt Thou indeed sweep away the righteous with the
wicked? ...

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THE IMAGINATION OF MAN’S HEART IS EVIL. Genesis 6:5, 8:21 - #19

And the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every
imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually…

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DO NOT WRONG YOUR NEIGHBOR Leviticus 19:13; 25:14, 17 - #20

And if thou sell aught [anything at all - AJL] unto thy neighbour, or buy of thy
neighbour’s hand, ye shall not wrong one another…

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YOU SHALL BE HOLY Exodus 19:6, 22:30; Leviticus 10:3, 11:44-5, 19:2, 20:26; Deuteronomy 10:13 - #21

and ye shall be unto Me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words
which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel…

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WALK IN HIS WAYS Deuteronomy 10:12, 13:5, 13:18, 28:9 - #22

...and ye shall be unto Me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words
which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel…

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JUDGE RIGHTEOUSLY; PURSUE JUSTICE Exodus 23:1-3, 6; Leviticus 19:15, 24:22; Deuteronomy 1:16-17; 16:19-20 - #23A

Thou shalt not utter a false report; put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous
witness...

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JUDGE RIGHTEOUSLY; PURSUE JUSTICE Exodus 23:1-3, 6; Leviticus 19:15, 24:22; Deuteronomy 1:16-17; 16:19-20 - #23B

Thou shalt not utter a false report; put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous
witness...

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EVERYTHING THAT HE HAD MADE … WAS VERY GOOD Genesis 1:31 - #24

And God saw every thing that He had made, and, behold, it was very good. And there was
evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

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FOR YOU IT SHALL BE FOOD Genesis 1:29; Leviticus 11:3, 19, 43-45, 47; Deuteronomy 14:21 - #25

And God said: ‘Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face
of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed—to you it shall be
for food…

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DO THE RIGHT AND THE GOOD Exodus 15:26; Deuteronomy 6:18, 12:28 - #26

...and He said: ‘If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do
that which is right in His eyes, and wilt give ear to His commandments, and keep all His
statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon thee, which I have put upon the Egyptians; for I
am the LORD that healeth thee…

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THE BREATH OF LIFE … A LIVING SOUL Genesis 2:7 - #27

Then the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils
the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

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IN WHAT ELSE SHALL HE SLEEP? Exodus 22:24-26; Leviticus 25:36–37, Deuteronomy 23:20–21 - #28

If thou lend money to any of My people, even to the poor with thee, thou shalt not be to
him as a creditor; neither shall ye lay upon him interest. 25 If thou at all take thy neighbour’s
garment to pledge, thou shalt restore it unto him by that the sun goeth down; 26 for that is
his only covering, it is his garment for his skin; wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to
pass, when he crieth unto Me, that I will hear; for I am gracious…

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TO WORK AND TO GUARD IT Genesis 2:15 - #29

And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to
keep it.

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LET YOUR BROTHER LIVE BY YOUR SIDE; DO NOT OPPRESS A LABORER Leviticus 19:13; 25:35; Deuteronomy 24:14-5 - #30

Thou shalt not oppress thy neighbour, nor rob him; the wages of a hired servant shall not
abide with thee all night until the morning…

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