THINK: Ki Tetze, Shooing Away The Mother Bird & The (In)justice Of This World

This episode of THINK focuses on a particular story that the Sages told in multiple versions of an individual who strove to fulfill the mitzva of shiluach haken (shooing away the mother bird) but rather than receiving the reward for a good and long life as the Torah promises, instead fell off the tree and died. This mitzva and accompanying story became one of the great moments in which the Sages of the Talmud considered the relationship between what we receive in return for our deeds, and the nature of mitzvot more generally. Based on an essay in the recently published Shiurim B'Agaddah of Rav Shagar. Source sheet here