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EPISODE · Jul 26, 2026 · 13 MIN

Are Modern Social Justice Values in the Torah?

from Judaism for the Thinking Person · host Rabbi Nadav Caine

What are the most common commandments in the Torah? Shabbat? Kashrut? No, it's repetition after repetition about caring for the stranger, the widow, the orphan, the poor, and the daily laborer. Are these terms that identify specific roles in Biblical society that are not easily mappable onto modern society? Or is that exactly wrong -- even to the point of our mistranslating them (like "orphan") to put ourselves at a distance? 

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