Humiliation, Judaism's Fourth Cardinal Sin
Parashat VaYigash
Parashat VaYigash
Shai Held
Ask a reasonably knowledgeable Jew, and they'll probably tell you that there are three cardinal sins in Judaism, three sins you should rather die than commit: idolatry, sexual immorality, and murder. But according to some of our most influential halakhic scholars, derived in part from this week's parashah, astonishingly it appears that there is a fourth: embarrassment.
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