Parashat Ekev starts with these words:
“And if you do obey (V’Haya ekev tishma’oon) these rules and observe them carefully, Adonai your God will maintain faithfully for you the convenant that God made on oath with your ancestors”
(Deuteronomy 7: 12)
In this verse the word “Ekev” means “because”(if). That means that as a result of this [...]
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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.."