Specific self-harming mourning rituals common in surrounding cultures are explicitly banned here, right alongside the dietary laws - why lump grief practices in with food restrictions at all? Both apparently counted as areas where the text wanted cle...
Legal & Ethicalלא תתגדדו YE SHALL NOT CUT YOURSELVES — i.e. you shall not make cuttings and incisions in your flesh for the dead in the way the Amorites do (Sifrei Devarim 96:11), because you are children of the Lord and it is therefore becoming for you to be comel...
Historical CommentatorsSelect a line on the left to view commentary.