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In the Torah We prescribed for them a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a nose for a nose, an ear for an ear, a tooth for a tooth, an equal wound for a wound: if anyone forgoes this out of charity, it will serve as atonement for his bad deeds. Those who do not judge according to what God has revealed are doing grave wrong.
The Blasphemer (16th century drawing by Niccolò dell'Abbate). Emor (אֱמֹר —Hebrew for "speak," the fifth word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 31st weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the eighth in the Book of Leviticus.
This verse begins in the same style as the earlier antitheses, that natural desire for retaliation or vengeance can be conveniently justified with a reference to the Old Testament: [1] An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth, known as the principle of lex talionis ("the law of retribution"), is an ancient statement of the principle of retributive punishment dating back to the Code of Hammurabi.
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Matthew 5:39 is the thirty-ninth verse of the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament and is part of the Sermon on the Mount.This is the second verse of the antithesis on the command: "eye for an eye".
At the time of Jesus, says Wink, striking backhand a person deemed to be of lower socioeconomic class was a means of asserting authority and dominance. If the persecuted person "turned the other cheek," the discipliner was faced with a dilemma: the left hand was used for unclean purposes, so a back-hand strike on the opposite cheek would not be ...
Moses Receives the Tablets of the Law (1868 painting by João Zeferino da Costa). Mishpatim (מִּשְׁפָּטִים —Hebrew for "laws," the second word of the parashah) is the eighteenth weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the sixth in the Book of Exodus.
The Torah also describes how special bread was to be set out before Yahweh Sabbath by Sabbath [15] and describes Sabbath day offerings. [ 16 ] The Day of Atonement was regarded as a "Sabbath of Sabbaths" [ 17 ] It was on this day alone that the High Priest of Israel entered the Holy of Holies inside the Tabernacle where the Ark of the Covenant ...