Parshas Ki Teitzei: Caring for Others
- Noach Karp
- Sep 4
- 1 min read
Dear Friends,
I want to begin by expressing my heartfelt gratitude to each and every one of you for all the mitzvos and prayers you have offered over the past almost month for my mother. Your care and concern have meant the world to our family. I'm grateful to share that she is finally home and doing well, Baruch Hashem. While the doctors are still monitoring her blood pressure, she is getting stronger and more stable each day.
This experience has led me to reflect deeply on a fundamental question: How far does our care and concern for others truly extend? If we take a journey through this week's Torah portion, we encounter a multitude of mitzvos and commandments that guide us in how we are to care for others and demonstrate just how important each person is to us.
I would like to share one particular law that beautifully illustrates this point: The Torah teaches us that if we lend money to someone and take collateral from them, and that collateral happens to be something they need for nighttime—imagine someone so poor that all they can offer as security is their pillow—we must return it to them each evening and may retrieve it again in the morning. We are forbidden from causing them any added discomfort because of their difficult situation..... see the rest here:
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