Davar Akher

Yesterday was my brother’s bar-mitzvah! As both an older sibling and his teacher, I was very proud. His parsha was משפטים (“laws”) and spanned Exodus 21 through 24. I did the leyning (לייען = Yiddish, “read”) from the Torah and, as a result, had spent a rather long period of the time with this particular parsha in advance of the day – a period of time that provided me with much material for thought. It is an interesting parsha and some of my favourite verses happen to be found within it. Take, for example, the following (rather dark) examples:

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