Parshas: Ki Seitzei

Parshas: Ki Seitzei

This week’s Torah portion contains 74 mitzvos (commandments) — more than 10% of the 613 mitzvos of the Torah. Among the highlights:

• Guidelines for treatment of captured female prisoners of war.
• Treatment of the ‘stubborn and rebellious son’.
• Prohibition of wearing shatnez — a mixture of wool and linen in the same garment.
• The case of the defamation of a married woman.
• Men are forbidden from wearing women’s clothing and vice versa.
• Taking interest for lending to a Jew is forbidden.
• The requirement of a get (bill of divorce) when divorce takes place.
• The obligation to pay workers in a timely fashion (handymen, babysitters, etc.)
• Special consideration must be given to a widow and orphan.

This power-packed Torah portion concludes with the command to remember the atrocities which the nation of Amalek (from whom Haman came) committed against us upon our exodus from Egypt.