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August 21, 2026
The Wayward Son and the Lessons of Biblical Law
“Examine it and receive a reward!”
While relatively brief, this week’s Torah reading of Ki Teitsei (Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19) contains a slew of commandments, some obscure, some unsurprising, and some unsettling to the modern reader. In the last category is the injunction to execute the “wayward and rebellious son” whose parents report him to be “a drunkard and a glutton.” The Talmud in some ways makes this particular capital offense more palatable by claiming it is purely theoretical (although this view is disputed), placed in the Torah only so that the reader can “examine it and receive a reward [in Hebrew, s’khar].” Yet the rabbinic interpretations themselves raise a series of unsettling questions. Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman examines these, and offers a novel perspective:
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The Wayward Son and the Lessons of Biblical Law
“Examine it and receive a reward!”