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The Sharia of Moses in the TORA
Part 2 - The 365 Prohibitions of the Tora
280 - A JUDGE PREVENTING THE JUSTICE DUE TO PROSELYTES OR ORPHANS
He who perverts the justice due to anyone in Israel transgresses one negative commandment, which is contained in His words, You shall do no injustice in judgment;* but he who perverts the justice due to a proselyte transgresses two negative commandments, as the Sifre says: “You shall not pervert justice due the stranger: this teaches us that he who perverts the justice due to a proselyte violates two negative commandments.”** And if the proselyte was fatherless, he transgresses three.
** Deut. XXIV, 17, Sifre