Daily Chumash Tuesday Ki Seitzei – Miscellaneous Mitzvos

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1. Miscellaneous Mitzvos:
   • Fences: When you build a new home, you are to make a fence around the roof and not cause blood to spill in your home.
   • Kilayim-Hybrids & crossbreeds: Do not crossbreed your vineyard by sowing the grapes and grains in close proximation to each other. Do not plow with [two different species of animals, such as] an ox and donkey. Do not wear Shatnez, which is wool and linen woven together.
   • Tzitzis: Tie for yourselves Tzitzis on the four corners of your garments.
   • False claims of adultery-Motzi Shem Ra: If a man marries a woman and despises her and falsely slanders his wife saying that she committed adultery, then after the matter is verified to be false, he is to be fined 100 Kesef and cannot ever divorce his wife.
   • Adultery: If, however, it is true that she committed adultery, then both her and the adulterer are to be killed. If she was a Naarah [Meurasa], then she is to be stoned by the entrance of her father’s home. You are to eradicate the evil from amongst your midst.
   • Seduction: If a young Halachically engaged virgin [i.e. Naarah Meurasa] was found in the city by a man and he laid with her [and she did not protest, despite having ability to do so, without being harmed] then both he and the girl are to be killed through stoning.
   • Rape: If, however, the married girl was found in the field and was overcome and raped by a man [against her will, without ability to protest] then only he, the rapist, is killed. If, however, the young girl whom he raped was single, then the rapist is to give her father fifty silver Shekalim and he is to marry her, and cannot divorce her for all his days.
   • Forbidden relations and marriages-Fathers wife, Saris, Mamzer, Amoni: One may not marry his father’s wife. A person with an injury in the reproductive system [i.e. Saris/impotent] may not marry into the congregation of Hashem [a Jewess]. A Mamzer may not marry into the congregation of Hashem [i.e. a Jewess] even in the 10^th An Amoni/Moavi convert may not marry into the congregation of Hashem [i.e. a Jewess] even in the 10^th generation, forever. This is because they did not offer you bread and water when you were traveling from Egypt, as well as because they hired Balaam to curse you. Hashem did not listen to Balaam and turned the curse into a blessing, as Hashem loves you.
   • You may not make peace with Amon/Moav all your days.