What Makes Our Laws "Jewish"?

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February 10 2020
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Yitro 

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Every people who ever existed has had rules and laws, yet it is Jews who have been most associated with them. And not unfairly. After all, we are a people not simply contained by our laws but unified by our laws, our mitzvot. Jewish laws. But if everyone has rules and laws, many of them the same - don't kill. steal, or commit adultery, teach honor for parents - what makes our Torah, our law unique? There is a powerful distinction and it is centered on the first and last commandments, commandments that define not just rules of behavior but something deeper, something more.

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