Matan Pledge

(14) Do not curse the deaf, and do not put a stumbling-block before the blind, but fear your God: I am YHVH.

8) ...These are the obligations of a father to a son:

• To circumcise him.
• To redeem him.
• To teach him Torah.
• To teach him a trade.
• To marry him to a wife.

And there are those who also say: to float in a river.

Rabbi Yehuda says: Anyone who does not teach his son a trade, it is though he has taught him robbery.

(5) (Witnesses in a capital case are given a liturgical warning that there will be dire consequences if they lie. This is part of it)

"It was for this reason that man was first created as one person [Adam], to teach you that anyone who destroys a life is considered by Scripture to have destroyed an entire world; and anyone who saves a life is as if he saved an entire world." And also, to promote peace among the creations, that no man would say to his friend, "My ancestors are greater than yours." And also, so that heretics will not say, "there are many rulers up in Heaven." And also, to express the grandeur of The Holy One [blessed be He]: For a man strikes many coins from the same die, and all the coins are alike. But the King, the King of Kings, The Holy One [blessed be He] strikes every man from the die of the First Man, and yet no man is quite like his friend. Therefore, every person must say, “For my sake ‎the world was created.”‎

Rabbi Yosef [who was blind] said: At first, I said that if someone said that the halakha agrees with Rabbi Yehuda who says that a blind person is not obligated in mitzvot, I would throw a party for the rabbis! Because I am not obligated and yet I observe.

Now that I have heard the opinion of Rabbi Haninah that one who is obligated and performs is greater than one who is not obligated and performs — on the contrary, if someone tells me that the halakha is not like Rabbi Yehuda I will throw a party for the rabbis!

(10) But Moses said to YHVH, “Please, O Lord, I have never been a man of words, either in times past or now that You have spoken to Your servant; I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.” (11) YHVH said to him, “Who gives man speech? Who makes him mute or deaf, seeing or blind? Is it not I, YHVH (12) Now go, and I will be with you as you speak and will instruct you what to say.”

(13) But he said, “Please, O Lord, make someone else Your agent.” (14) YHVH became angry with Moses, and He said, “There is your brother Aaron the Levite. He, I know, speaks readily. Even now he is setting out to meet you, and he will be happy to see you. (15) You shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth—I will be with you and with him as you speak, and tell both of you what to do— (16) and he shall speak for you to the people. Thus he shall serve as your spokesman, with you playing the role of God to him, (17) and take with you this rod, with which you shall perform the signs.”