In a military class, the professor asked the students, "What is the difference between an engagement and a battle?"
No one in the group offered any answer. The professor was frustrated. “Didn’t anyone read the material in the book?” he thundered.
Finally, one guy said that he knew the answer.
"An engagement is a thing that came before marriage," he said, "while the battle is what followed it."
In this week’s Torah portion Ki Tezeh, we read of a story about a really monstrous teenager, who gives his parents such trouble, that they actually take him to the High Court not to be locked up, but to be executed by the court so that he leave this world innocent.
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