Ki Tetze – one of the Torah’s most packed and complex portions. From the unsettling opening law about the captive woman to the closing command to remember Amalek, we explore how these ancient statutes mix the strange and the sacred. Together, we unpack difficult and sometimes puzzling texts on war, family, justice, and compassion, asking what these laws meant in their ancient Near Eastern context and how they’ve been interpreted through the lenses of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Talmud, New Testament, and modern scholarship. This week’s conversation seeks to uncover sacred meaning amid the strangeness, tracing timeless questions about morality, identity, and covenant.

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