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Shoftim D'varim / Deuteronomy
16:18–21:9
The name of the Parshah, "Shoftim,"
means "Judges" and it is found in Deuteronomy 16:18.
Moses instructs the people of Israel to appoint judges and law
enforcement officers in every city. “Justice, justice shall you pursue,”
he commands them, and you must administer it without corruption or
favoritism. Crimes must be meticulously investigated and evidence
thoroughly examined—a minimum of two credible witnesses is required for
conviction and punishment.
In every generation, says Moses, there will be those entrusted with the
task of interpreting and applying the laws of the Torah. “According to
the law that they will teach you, and the judgment they will instruct
you, you shall do; you shall not turn away from the thing that they say
to you, to the right nor to the left.”
Shoftim also includes the prohibitions against idolatry and sorcery;
laws governing the appointment and behavior of a king; and guidelines
for the creation of “cities of refuge” for the inadvertent murderer.
Also set forth are many of the rules of war: the exemption from battle
for one who has just built a home, planted a vineyard, married, or is
“afraid and soft-hearted”; the requirement to offer terms of peace
before attacking a city; and the prohibition against wanton destruction
of something of value, exemplified by the law that forbids to cut down a
fruit tree when laying siege (in this context the Torah makes the famous
statement, “For man is a tree of the field”).
The Parshah concludes with the law of the eglah arufah—the special
procedure to be followed when a person is killed by an unknown murderer
and his body is found in a field—which underscores the responsibility of
the community and its leaders not only for what they do, but also for
what they might have prevented from being done.
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