Judaism for the Thinking Person
Jul 26, 2026 · 14 min · 9 segments
What are the most common commandments in the Torah? Shabbat? Kashrut? No, it's repetition after repetition about caring for the stranger, the widow, the orphan, the poor, and the daily laborer. Are…
Nadav CaineHost
And we see other things, like maybe the fifth commandment that we just read, in one light when it's not taken to mean that in the light of halakha.
And I want you to imagine whether my presentation of the definitions is correct and what that would mean today for what we do.
The concerns I'm talking about for the categories I just mentioned are not just it's one author in one chapter.
This is something that's common to all of the published documents that make up the Torah.
It's so in the priestly publication, it's in the tribal publications, and it is all over Deuteronomy.
And we see other things, like maybe the fifth commandment that we just read, in one light when it's not taken to mean that in the light of halakha.
And I want you to imagine whether my presentation of the definitions is correct and what that would mean today for what we do.
The concerns I'm talking about for the categories I just mentioned are not just it's one author in one chapter.
This is something that's common to all of the published documents that make up the Torah.
It's so in the priestly publication, it's in the tribal publications, and it is all over Deuteronomy.
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