Parsha “Ki Tetzi” (“When you go forth” – to battle) — Deuteronomy 16:18-21:9) begins with another VERY ‘politically IN-correct’ prescription. Which tells us, right up front, why this is one worth paying attention to.

Because we’ve been told it “doesn’t matter” any more, is “done away with,” or worse. Lied to about, in other words.

The Erev Shabbat reading begins there, and includes what amounts to a great summary of just why that is:

During the Sabbath Day midrash, Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa explains why “miscellaneous mitzvot,” or commandments, are nothing of the sort. They’re certainly not “done away with,” but the fact that so many are SO ‘politically-INcorrect’ speaks volumes about a world jonesin’ fer judgment.

But what really stands out in THIS environment, today, is that they are intended for human beings, created in His image. Not corporations, and not “AI,” or any other creation of mere men.

The combined two-part reading and Sabbath midrash: