- Re'eh what?
Behold this day I set before thee a blessing and a curse. A blessing if... and a curse if ...
- B'nai Yisrael was to destroy all of the idols, altars, and places of worship of the nations they would dispossess. Where was B'nai Yisrael to worship?
The place that Hashem would choose out of all the tribes to put his name
- The people were told they could eat flesh within their gates, both the clean and unclean. What does that mean, both the clean and unclean, and what flesh could they eat?
Both those ritually pure and impure could eat acceptable flesh, but the impure could not eat animals eligible for sacrifice; they could eat the hart or gazelle.
- B'nai Yisrael was not allowed to eat their tithes of corn, oil, etc. within their gates. Where were they allowed to eat them?
Before Hashem in a place He would choose.
- Under what circumstance were the people to disregard the signs and wonders of a dreamer or prophet?
If he suggested they go after other gods they had not known to worship them.
- What was B'nai Yisrael to do if members of their community drew others away to worship other gods in another place?
Follow them and kill them and all the inhabitants of that place; also kill the cattle and utterly destroy everything in the place by fire.
- What are the 2 qualifications for an animal to be eligible for a Jew to eat?
Parted and cloven hoof, and chews its cud.
- What is the difference between the way eligible animals and birds are described as compared to eligible fish?
Besides naming the qualifications of the animals and birds, Hashem also listed certain ones that were clean and certain that were not. With the fish, He just gave the qualifications.
- If an animal died on its own, what could a Jew do with it?
Give it to a stranger within their gates, or sell it to a foreigner.
- B'nai Yisrael was to tithe the produce of their fields every year? What were they to do with the tithe?
They were to eat and enjoy the tithe before Hashem in a place He would choose. If the place were too far away, they were to sell it, go to the place Hashem chose, and buy whatever their heart desired, eat and rejoice with their household.
- Every so often, the Jew was to dispose of his tithe in a different way than described above. How often and what was he to do?
Every 3rd year he was to take the tithe and lay it up within the gates of his city so that the Levite, the stranger, the widow and the fatherless could enjoy it.
- When was a slave allowed to go free and under what conditions?
In the 7th year and he was not to go away empty handed. The former owner was to furnish him liberally out of his flock, out of the threshing floor, and out of the winepress, in remembrance of when Hashem took us out of Mitzraim.
- We were told not to regret the freeing of the slave for to the double of the hire of a hireling has he served for 6 years. What does that mean?
Because the slave could be required to work night and day, whereas the hireling only worked during the day.
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