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A Month of Refuge

August 20, 2022 – 10:48 pm | Comments Off on A Month of Refuge11,812 views
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Refuge is discussed often in the Torah. When a Jew killed another inadvertently, he was required to flee to a city of refuge, where he was given asylum from the victim’s relatives.  These cities were established throughout the land of Israel to ensure that inadvertent killers had sufficient and easy …