Parashat Khayei Sarah tells the story of the deaths of both Sarah and Abraham. In the end, Abraham’s sons, Isaac and Ishmael, bury him together. We do not know whether there had been contact or complete estrangement between the 2 brothers since the time that Hagar and Ishmael were expelled into the desert. Different midrashim [...]
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"Wash you, make you clean; Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes, cease to do evil...learn to do well...seek judgement...relieve the oppressed...judge the fatherless...plead for the widow"
"..Do not steal from the
poor, for they are oppressed, nor should you oppress the
downtrodden.."
"..Thou shalt neither vex
a stranger, nor oppress him..If thou at all afflict them, &
they cry to me, I will surely hear their cry.."
"..Woe to them that devise
iniquity..taking them by violence; & houses, & take them
away: so they oppress a man & his house, even a man & his
heritage.."