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“Ye shall NOT ADD TO
THE WORD which I command you, NEITHER SHALL
YE DIMINISH FROM IT, that ye may keep the commandments of יְהוָה
אֱלֹהֵיכֶם - the LORD your Eloleichem, which I command you”. Davarim -
Deuteronomy 4:2. (JPS-1917).
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With Rabbi,
Dr. Reuven Ben Avraham-Goossens, PhD.
Introduction: (The Sanctity of the Assembly and the Camp).
Deuteronomy 23 functions as a blueprint for
maintaining the physical and spiritual integrity of
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Below are the
verses of Deuteronomy Chapter 23, verses 1 to 26: Whilst below the chapter is a
commentary of same. (The Chapter is from JPS-1917 version of the Torah).
1 “A man shall
not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt. 2 He that is crushed or maimed in his privy parts shall
not enter into the assembly of יְהוָה - the LORD. 3 A bastard shall not
enter into the assembly of יְהוָה - the LORD; even to the tenth generation shall none of his enter into
the assembly of יְהוָה - the LORD. 4 An Ammonite or a Moabite
shall not enter into the assembly of יְהוָה - the LORD; even to the tenth generation shall none of them enter into
the assembly of יְהוָה - the LORD forever; 5 because they met
you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt;
and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor
from Pethor of Aram-naharaim,
to curse thee. 6 Nevertheless יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ -
the LORD thy Eloheicha (God) would not hearken unto
Balaam; but יְהוָה
אֱלֹהֶיךָ - the LORD thy Eloheicha
turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because יְהוָה
אֱלֹהֶיךָ - the LORD thy Eloheicha
loved thee. 7 Thou shalt not seek
their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever. 8 Thou
shalt not abhor an Edomite, for he is thy brother;
thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian, because thou wast a
stranger in his land. 9 The children of the
third generation that are born unto them may enter into the assembly of יְהוָה - the LORD. 10 When thou goest forth in camp against thine enemies, then thou shalt
keep thee from every evil thing. 11 If there be
among you any man, that is not clean by reason of that which chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the
camp, he shall not come within the camp. 12 But
it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall bathe himself in water; and when
the sun is down, he may come within the camp. 13 Thou
shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth
abroad. 14 And thou shalt have a paddle among
thy weapons; and it shall be, when thou sittest down
abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which
cometh from thee. 15 For יְהוָה
אֱלֹהֶיךָ - the LORD thy Eloheicha
walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee,
and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy;
that He see no unseemly thing in thee, and turn away from thee. 16 Thou shalt not deliver unto his master a bondman
that is escaped from his master unto thee; 17 he
shall dwell with thee, in the midst of thee, in the place which he shall choose
within one of thy gates, where it liketh him best;
thou shalt not wrong him. 18 There shall be no
harlot of the daughters of
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My
special Commentary on Deuteronomy
Chapter 23:
Verses 1-9: ‘The Boundaries of the Assembly’. The
opening section establishes strict genealogical and physical requirements for
full membership in the national assembly. These exclusions, ranging from
physical impediments to specific national origins (
Verses 10-15: ‘Purity in the Camp’. The focus
shifts from the national assembly to the military camp. Here, the Torah insists
that the camp be “holy”, not just for the sake of hygiene, but because the
Divine Presence accompanies the soldiers. The requirement for physical
cleanliness after a nocturnal occurrence and the mandate for a “paddle” (v. 14)
to cover waste are practical rules that elevate the mundane to the level of the
sacred. It teaches that אֱלֹהִים - Elohim (God) is found in the details of how we manage our physical existence
during times of conflict.
Verses 16-26: ‘Social Compassion and Integrity’. The
latter half of the chapter addresses a variety of ethical situations. The law
protecting the runaway slave (v. 16–17) is a radical departure from the
contemporary laws of the ancient Near East, which usually demanded the return
of “property”. This highlights
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My Closing Message: ‘The Presence in the Ordinary’.
Deuteronomy 23 teaches us that the “Sacred”
is not confined to a
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