Do What You Said You’d Do

Selections from Devarim/Words in Ki Teze   Deut. 21.10 -25.9

Wherever you go and wherever you are

This is the camp of the Lord

When you say you’ll do something, do it!

Fulfill the words that cross your lips   This is empowering

If you feel impure, bathe in clean water

And re-dedicate yourself to your most noble intentions

Use honest weights and measures

With no alternate weights in your pouch

In this way endure in the land of your sacred inheritance

Don’t be indifferent to another’s difficulties or losses

Assist however you can

You’re always free to divorce    No one owns another, but

When you marry, consider it forever 

Give happiness to the person you marry

Don’t regularly dress yourself as someone you are not

Don’t pretend; be who you are

Don’t prostitute yourself

Even for what you consider a sacred cause

Lend to relatives and friends without charging interest

Thus, God blesses you in all your undertakings

Never defame anyone

Or speak disrespectfully of their intimate life

Whoever takes sexual advantage of an innocent woman or man

Must stand face to face before our mother and father in heaven

Don’t abhor or exclude anyone who may derive

From another culture, ethnic background or nationality

Including those from races or lands where we were persecuted

Remember to forget Amalek   our enemy over the ages

“Beware of pride until your dying day.” – Baal Shem Tov

Weekly Selections from Deuteronomy

Drawn from the Travelers Torah Gita Calendar