📜 Daily Chumash & Rashi – Parshas Ki Seitzei Shishi: Miscellaneous Mitzvos

Author: Rabbi Yaakov GoldsteinPublished: August 21, 2026
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Shishi Miscellaneous Mitzvos: First year of marriage: When a man marries a new wife, he is to be with her for the first year and is not to be conscripted into the army. He is to rejoice with his wife which he married. Collateral: One may not take food vessels

Shishi

  1. Miscellaneous Mitzvos:
  • First year of marriage: When a man marries a new wife, he is to be with her for the first year and is not to be conscripted into the army. He is to rejoice with his wife which he married.
  • Collateral: One may not take food vessels as a Mashkon/collateral.
  • Kidnappers: If a kidnapper of Jews is found, and he enslaves and sells the victim, he is to be killed.
  • Guarding the Tzaraas: “Guard the Tzaraas very much and follow all the directives of the Kohanim, the Levites, as I have commanded. Remember what Hashem did to Miriam when she left Egypt.”
  • Laws of a Mashkon: When someone owes you a debt, you may not enter his home to take collateral. You must stand outside, and he is to bring it to you. If he is a pauper, you may not go to sleep with his item (in your possession) and are rather to return it to him prior to sundown.   

 

Q&A on Rashi

 

📘 Rashi Q&A — Devarim 24:5–13

24:5 — The Newly Married Man

Q1. Who is exempt from military service?

  1. A man who has taken a new wife.

Q2. What does “new wife” mean?

  1. A wife who is new to him, even if she was previously married.

Q3. Who is excluded from this exemption?

  1. One who remarries his divorced wife.

Q4. What military obligations is he exempt from?

  1. Both combat service and army-support duties.

Q5. What examples of army-support duties does Rashi mention?

  1. Providing food, supplying water, and repairing roads.

Q6. Are other men sent home from battle exempt from such duties?

  1. No. Those exempt because of a house, vineyard, or engagement still perform support services.

Q7. What does “he shall remain for his house” teach?

  1. The exemption also applies to someone who has newly dedicated a house.

Q8. What else is included?

  1. Someone who has recently redeemed and begun enjoying a vineyard.

Q9. What is his responsibility during that year?

  1. To make his wife happy.

 

📘 24:6 — Taking Security for a Loan

Q10. What may not be taken as collateral?

  1. Millstones used for preparing food.

Q11. Which millstones are mentioned?

  1. The lower millstone and the upper millstone.

Q12. Why are these protected?

  1. They are essential tools for producing food.

Q13. What broader principle is being taught?

  1. A creditor may not take collateral that deprives a person of basic means of living.

 

📘 24:7 — Kidnapping

Q14. What crime is described?

  1. Kidnapping a fellow Israelite.

Q15. What additional acts make the kidnapper liable for execution?

  1. Using the victim as a slave and selling him.

Q16. How must the crime be established?

  1. Through witnesses and prior warning.

Q17. What is the punishment?

  1. Death.

Q18. Why is such punishment imposed?

  1. To remove evil from Israel.

 

📘 24:8–9 — Tzara’at and Miriam

24:8

Q19. What warning is given concerning tzara’at?

  1. Be extremely careful to follow the priests’ instructions.

Q20. What specific prohibition does Rashi mention?

  1. Do not remove signs of impurity or cut away a tzara’at lesion.

Q21. What authority do the priests have?

  1. To quarantine, declare impure, or declare pure.

 

24:9

Q22. Whom are we commanded to remember?

  1. Miriam.

Q23. Why?

  1. She was struck with tzara’at after speaking about Moshe.

Q24. What lesson is learned?

  1. Avoid lashon hara (derogatory speech).

 

📘 24:10–13 — Collateral and Compassion

24:10

Q25. What may a lender not do when collecting collateral?

  1. Enter the borrower’s home to seize it.

Q26. What does “when you lend” literally mean?

  1. When you place an obligation or debt upon another.

 

24:11

Q27. Who must bring out the collateral?

  1. The borrower.

Q28. Why?

  1. To preserve the borrower’s dignity and privacy.

 

24:12

Q29. What if the borrower is poor?

  1. The lender may not keep the collateral overnight when the borrower needs it.

Q30. What does Rashi say this means?

  1. One may not go to sleep while retaining essential collateral belonging to the poor.

 

24:13

Q31. What must be done with a garment used at night?

  1. It must be returned by sunset.

Q32. What about a garment used during the day?

  1. It must be returned in the morning.

Q33. What may result from returning the collateral?

  1. The borrower may bless the lender.

Q34. If the borrower does not bless him, is there still reward?

  1. Yes.

Q35. How does Hashem view this act?

  1. It is counted as righteousness and merit.

 

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