21:
n: No realm of religion. All areas of life (para 1)
A judge (para 2)
Civil law as an extension of the 6th commandment (covet)
n: Avoiding damage to others
n1: The laws must be placed before them in their fullness!
(understand and apply: Not true
opposite: don't understand, just apply - that is what we are taught as the truth)
2 problems:
- spread: In a lawless land any law is better than none. Even if roughly hewn, it would be of benefit. Any now?
- Heavily based on witness testimony - which only works in a Community of Truth.
- The virtualisation of the world removes human witnesses. We believe that the evidence from a picture or video is more accurate than witness testimony - but the same standard of truth is required. What if the video/photo is faked.
n28-32: reduce to market value for final restitution.
n25:
נזק - loss of value
צער - pain
רפוי - medical cost
שֶׁבֶת - loss of income
בושׁת - humiliation (Deut. 25:11)
ואלה המשׁפתים אשׁר תשׂים לפניהם - to whom is He speaking?
21-23: Laws
23:6]
Pervert judgement, false word, execute the innocent
Bribe, oppress stranger
6 years, then rest; 6 days, then rest.
No names of other G-ds.
23:15] 3 festivals: appear before א
- Matzos: 7 days, month of Springtime
- Harvest : first fruits of your labour
- Ingathering : close year, gather in your work from the fields
23:21] Angel to protect you. Being that I have made ready.
24:
To Moses: Aaron, Nadab, Abihu + 70 elders ascended to G-d : עלה אל־יהוה
Moses -> G-d, elders not, not do people ascend to G-d
Moses spoke to poeple: כל הדטרים אשׁר דבר יהוה נעשׂה
- wrote words of Hashem
- read "Book of Covenant"
This is where we say: נעשׁה ונשׁמע
הנה דם הדברים אשׁר כרת יהוה עמכם אלוהי
{4 + elders saw God(s) of Israel
Sapphire brick work : כעצם השׁמיים לטהר ־ כמעשׁה לבנת הספיר}
did not stretch His hand against the elders : לא שׁלח ידו
gazed at G-d "cannot look at My face", yet ate and drank (assumedly in His company) : אצילי בני ישׂראל