By Rabbi Arthur Waskow
Ki Tetze is a portion of great compassion (Deut 21: 10 to 25:19):
Compassion for the poor person who cannot redeem a debt-pledge, for your neighbor who might fall from the unprotected roof of your house, for your enemy whose sheep has wandered away, for a mother bird who is sitting on her eggs. –- Then suddenly there is this puzzling, paradoxical command:
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