Bava Kama 56 – The Laws of Heaven

Today’s Talmud page, Bava Kama 56, discusses the differences between being liable according to human laws and being liable according to the laws of heaven. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin returns to discuss the secondary responsibility of being good when you live a religious life, having to ensure that you are living according to both the local laws of where you live, but equally importantly to the divine laws. While the laws of heaven may not be important in a courtroom, we must be able to look in the mirror and know that we are living according to the values that we have taken on in our religious lives. How do we differentiate between the laws of man and the laws of heaven? Listen and find out.

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