Shabbat Reading and Commentary for week 9, 2009, (...

Exodus 21:1–24:18; Jeremiah 34:8-22; 33:25-26 by Michael Schneider, israel today, Jerusalem Commentary: After the Ten Commandments were given, the Children of Israel were given the laws of how to practice their everyday lives. Order and precepts were given to a people who were former slaves who had just been delivered. That’s why, the first of these laws deals with the freedom of a Hebrew slave on the seventh year....