Discussion Questions
- Paraphrase the excerpts.
- Discuss and agree upon the main points of each excerpt.
- Describe the relationship between worker and boss or employer in the excerpts from Deuteronomy and the Mishnah from Bava Metzia.
- What is implied about Torah by tying “flour” to it? Why might the two be interdependent? What does work have to do with this?
- What do the Torah and the Rabbinic Sages teach us about the meaning of work?