#54: Relax, Don't Get So Irritated
Me'or Einayim on Parashat Ki Teitze, Devarim/Deuteronomy 22:8
A parapet on a roof in Cyprus. Atribution: A.Savin, FAL, via Wikimedia Commons
Gimme Some Torah #54
In this verse, the Torah says that someone who is building a new house must install a מַעֲקֶה (ma’akeh), a parapet, on the roof to prevent accidental falls. (It was common, and in some places still is, to gather on the roof of a hous…
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