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A Different Experience With the Law of the Torah Than I Think Any of Us Should Have
In the Torah, Moses commanded us to stone such women to death. Jesus stooped down and with his finger started etching letters in the dirt. When they heard it, people began to leave one by one, beginning with the older ones. He's giving her the gift of life instead of death. But just notice again that he sees himself as fulfilling some deeper ideal of divine generosity. You have to learn how to model this kind of engagement with laws which is not straightforward.