Day: May 4, 2011

Preserving Justice with Sensitivity

Divrei Torah - In addition to various laws such as the above delineating transgressions and their resultant punishments, in Devarim 16:18-20, G-d enjoins us, “Judges and officers shall you make for yourself.”

We find towards the end of the Torah section of Emor: “And a man who strikes mortally any human life shall be put to death.  And a man who strikes mortally an animal life shall make restitution… And if a man inflicts a wound upon his fellow, as he did, so shall be done to […]