The Torah Portion, Shoftim, focuses on justice, leadership, and moral responsibility. Conquest, with God’s help, and settlement in Canaan are just the beginning. If the children of Israel are to endure as a strong, ethical community, there must be leaders to guide them in the fulfillment of God’s commandments – judges, Levite priests, kings, prophets, […]
Shoftim
Shoftim continues with Moses’ teaching about rules of governance once the children of Israel enter into the promised land. The insistence that any society created be based on justice and shun corruption by leaders and the avoidance of contamination by Canaanite culture is a central theme of Deuteronomy. F>or jurists to be fair and true […]