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Mishpatim is replete with down to earth, interpersonal laws like borrowing and lending, and guarding people’s property. Many apply the quip to this parasha: ‘After the ecstasy, comes the laundry.’  In other words, after the transcendent revelation at Sinai where, as Rashi puts it, the three million were as ‘one …

This week's Torah portion is called "Mishpatim" which means rational laws and it contains a large part of Judaism's civil laws.