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Simeon and Levi — Paradigms for a Bar Mitzvah Boy?
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Electronic Citation
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Title:
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Simeon and Levi — Paradigms for a Bar Mitzvah Boy?
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Author(s):
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Kalmenson, M.
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Date:
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2017/01/27
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Abstract:
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Why did Simeon and Levi kill the people of Shechem? Were their actions morally justified? Morally imperative? And why do they serve as the prototype for the law of bar mitzvah, the Jewish boy's attainment of maturity and responsibility?
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Link:
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http://www.chabad.org/parshah/article_cdo/aid/1051216/jewish/A-Time-to-Kill.htm
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