Deuteronomy

The power of "Amen."

How often do we punish individuals before addressing the ills of our social structures?

The Torah provides a model for separating religious, judicial, and governing bodies -- to keep power in check.

How can people who have worked to regain their freedom enslave their brothers?

An obligation of responsibility for this generation and the next.

At a time when Jewish influence has increased, how do we approach unethical commandments?

You can learn history, but how does one acquire memory?

Deuteronomy's legal treatment of slavery is more humane than the parallel laws in Exodus, and more practical than those in Leviticus.

While the Shema has been seen as a declaration of absolute monotheism, it has other meanings in its biblical and liturgical contexts.

The biblical book whose law and theology most directly shaped later Judaism.