Ki Satzai: Discipline in Service of Love

 Discipline is about maintainingstructure and functionality, sothat there can be a world of love and G-dliness. The discipline must nevermorph into aggression and ungodliness- the very misbehaviors which it comes toreign in. This message emerges powerfully from an in-depth treatment of the ''מלקות'' (lashing) narrative which stresses empathy even towards the individual who deserves physicalretribution.