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In Joshua 8, Joshua's javelin is reminiscent of Moses' staff. It was a symbol of the authority that God had given him. As long as he held that authority up and not his own, Israel would be victorious.

Shabbat Shalom everyone! Isn't this week's Torah portion exciting? I will warn you though. There's a spoiler in there. See Exodus 16:35. ?

TORAH LAW – PART 6

INJURIES AND DAMAGES

263 -- To make a parapet for your roof
264 -- Not to leave something that might cause hurt
265 -- To save the pursued even at the cost of the life of the pursuer
266 -- Not to spare a pursuer but he is to be slain before he reaches the pursued and slays the latter or uncovers his nakedness

PROPERTY AND PROPERTY RIGHTS

267 -- Not to sell a field in the land of Israel perpetuity
268 -- Not to change the character of the open land -- about the cities of -- the Levites or of their fields; not to sell it in perpetuity, but it may be redeemed at any time
269 -- That houses sold within a walled city may be redeemed within a year
270 -- Not to remove landmarks: property boundaries
271 -- Not to swear falsely in denial of another’s property rights
272 -- Not to deny falsely another’s property rights
273 -- Never to settle in the land of Egypt
274 -- Not to steal personal property
275 -- To restore that which one took by robbery
276 -- To return lost property
277 -- Not to pretend not to have seen lost property, to avoid the obligation to return it

CRIMINAL LAWS

278 -- Not to slay an innocent person
279 -- Not to kidnap any person
280 -- Not to rob by violence
281 -- Not to defraud
282 -- Not to covet what belongs to another
283 -- Not to crave something that belongs to another
284 -- Not to indulge in evil thoughts and sights

PUNISHMENT AND RESTITUTION

285 -- That the court shall pass sentence of death by decapitation with the sword
286 -- That the court shall pass sentence of death by strangulation
287 -- That the court shall pass sentence of death by burning with fire
288 -- That the court shall pass sentence of death by stoning
289 -- To hang the dead body of one who has incurred that penalty
290 -- That the dead body of an executed criminal shall not remain hanging on the tree over night
291 -- To inter the executed on the day of execution
292 -- Not to accept ransom from a murderer
293 -- To exile one who committed accidental homicide
294 -- To establish six cities of refuge - for those who committed accidental homicide
295 -- Not to accept ransom from an accidental homicide, so as to relieve him from exile
296 -- To decapitate the heifer in the manner prescribed - in expiation of a murder on the road, the perpetrator of which remained undiscovered
297 -- Not to plough or to sow the rough valley - in which a heifer’s neck was broken
298 -- To adjudge a thief to pay compensation or -- in certain cases -- suffer death
299 -- That he who inflicts a bodily injury shall pay monetary compensation
300 -- To impose a penalty of fifty shekels upon the seducer (of an un-betrothed virgin) and enforce the other rules in connection with the case
301 -- That the violator (of an un-betrothed virgin) shall marry her
302 -- That one who has raped a damsel and has then - in accordance with the Law - married her, may not divorce her
303 -- Not to inflict punishment on Shabbat
304 -- To punish the wicked by infliction of stripes
305 -- Not to exceed the statutory number of stripes laid on one who has incurred that punishment
306 -- Not to spare the offender, in imposing the prescribed penalties on one who has caused damage
307 -- To do unto false witnesses as they had purposed to do - to the accused
308 -- Not to punish anyone who has committed an offence under duress

TORAH LAW – PART 5

VOWS, OATHS AND SWEARING

203 -- That man should fulfil whatever he has uttered
204 -- Not to swear needlessly
205 -- Not to violate an oath or swear falsely
206 -- To decide in cases of annulment of vows, according to the rules set forth in the Torah
207 -- Not to break a vow
208 -- To swear by His Name truly
209 -- Not to delay in fulfilling vows or bringing vowed or free-will offerings

SABBATICAL AND JUBILEE YEARS

210 -- To let the land lie fallow in the sabbatical year
211 -- To cease from tilling the land in the sabbatical year
212 -- Not to till any ground in the sabbatical year
213 -- Not to do any work on trees in the sabbatical year
214 -- Not to reap the aftermath that grows in the sabbatical year, in the same way as it is reaped in other years
215 -- Not to gather the fruit of the tree in the sabbatical year in the same way as it is gathered in other years
216 -- To sound the shofar in the sabbatical year
217 -- To release debts in the seventh year
218 --Not to demand return of a loan after the sabbatical year has passed
219 -- Not to refrain from making a loan to a poor man, because of the release of loans in the sabbatical year
220 -- To assemble the people to hear the Torah at the close of the seventh year
221 -- To count the years of Jubilee by years and by cycles of seven years
222 -- To keep the Jubilee Year holy by resting and letting the land lie fallow
223 -- Not to cultivate the soil or do any work on trees in the Jubilee Year
224 -- Not to reap the aftermath of the field that grew of itself in the Jubilee Year, in the same way as in other years
225 -- Not to gather the fruit in the Jubilee Year in the same way as in other years
226 -- To grant redemption to the land in the Jubilee Year

THE COURT AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURES

227 -- To appoint judges and officers in every community of believers
228 -- Not to appoint a judge, a person who is not well versed in the Laws of the Torah, even if he is an expert in other branches of knowledge
229 -- To adjudicate cases of purchase and sale
230 -- To judge cases of liability of a paid depositary
231 -- To adjudicate cases of loss for which a gratuitous borrower is liable
232 -- To adjudicate cases of inheritances
233 -- To judge cases of damage caused by an uncovered pit
234 -- To judge cases of injury caused by animals
235 -- To adjudicate cases of damage caused by trespass of cattle
236 -- To adjudicate cases of damage caused by fire
237 -- To adjudicate cases of damage caused by a gratuitous depositary
238 -- To adjudicate other cases between a plaintiff and a defendant
239 -- Not to curse a judge
240 -- That one who possesses evidence shall testify in court
241 -- Not to testify falsely
242 -- That a witness who has testified in a capital case shall not lay down the law in that particular case
243 -- That a transgressor shall not testify
244 -- That the court shall not accept the testimony of a close relative of the defendant in matters of capital punishment
245 -- Not to hear one of the parties to a suit in the absence of the other party
246 -- To examine witnesses thoroughly
247 -- Not to decide a case on the evidence of a single witness
248 -- To give the decision according to the majority when there is a difference of opinion among the members of the believers as to matters of Law
249 -- Not to decide in capital cases, according to the view of the majority, when those who are for condemnation exceed by one only, those who are for acquittal
250 -- That in capital cases, one who had argued for acquittal, shall not later on argue for condemnation
251 -- To treat parties in a litigation with equal impartiality
252 -- Not to render iniquitous decisions
253 -- Not to favour a great man when trying a case
254 -- Not to take a bribe
255 -- Not to be afraid of a bad man, when trying a case
256 -- Not to be moved in trying a case, by the poverty of one of the parties
257 -- Not to pervert the judgement of strangers or orphans
258 -- Not to pervert the judgement of a sinner
259 -- Not to render a decision on your personal opinion but only on the evidence of two witnesses, who saw what actually occurred
260 -- Not to execute one, guilty of a capital offence, before he has stood his trial
261 -- To accept the rulings of every supreme court
262 -- Not to rebel against the orders of the court

Shabbat Shalom!