Deuteronomy · Weekly Torah portion
Parashat Ki Teitzeiכִּי־תֵצֵא
Torah reading
Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19
Haftarah
Isaiah 54:1-10
What happens in Ki Teitzei
With over seventy mitzvot, Ki Teitzei has more commandments than any other parsha, and most govern ordinary decency: return lost property, help lift a fallen animal even if it's your enemy's, build a railing on your roof, pay workers the same day, use honest weights and measures, leave forgotten sheaves for the poor, don't take the mother bird with her young. It closes with the charge to remember Amalek, who attacked the weakest stragglers.
Big themes
- Everyday decency
- Details of fairness
- Responsibility to strangers
If this is your bar or bat mitzvah portion
Seventy-plus mitzvot, and almost all are small: the railing, the lost wallet, the honest scale. Goodness is mostly logistics — a hundred small decencies rather than one grand gesture. Which of these ancient laws maps onto your school hallway?
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