Mishpatim questions

Mishpatim - משפטים : "Judgments"
Torah : Exodus 21:1-24:18
Haftarah : Jeremiah 34:8-22; 33:25-26
Gospels : Mark 9

Questions that can be raised from Parashat Mishpatim:

Ex. 21:1-11

1. What is the purpose of a bondsman/slave/servant ? Why isn't his forbidden in Scripture?
   
2. How does this passage increase one's understanding of human dignity and our relationships to one another?
   
3. Is it stretching the meaning of this portion to compare Yeshua's being pierced upon a tree to the bondsman's piercing of his ear upon the master's doorpost?
   

Ex. 21:12-34

1. What do we learn about the value of human life in these passages?
   
2. Is the eye-for-eye phraseology referring to killing someone or gouging out their eyes; or does this refer to monetary compensation? Which one is more likely, and why?
   
3. How does this passage show the value of women? And of parents?
   

Ex. 22:1-14, 20-26

1. According to this passage, what constitutes stealing? And what is exempt from being called stealing?
   
2. What are the laws regarding borrowing and repaying? How could something like this be implemented today?
   
3. What are the laws regarding the "strangers in the land?" How are they to be treated?
   
4. How are the poor to be treated? What ought we do about this?
   

Ex. 22:15-19

1. What do these four or five commandments all have in common?
   

Ex. 22:27-30

1. What is the connection between NOT reviling a leader, or judge; between bringing the firstborn animals to the priests, and NOT eating animals killed in the field, but allowing dogs to eat them?
   

Ex. 23:1-13

1. What is the connection between the seventh year Sabbatical year, not bearing false witness, not persecuting your enemies by withholding your help from them, and not perverting the judgment of a destitute person?
   

Ex. 23:14-19

1. What are the three pilgrimage festivals that all men are required to attend? And what is the purpose of each festival?
   
2. What needs to be brought to the Temple/tabernacle?
   

Ex. 23:20-33

1. What are the conditions by which Israel much conquer each of the different Canaanite tribes?
   

Ex. 24:1-18

1. What do we learn from the ceremony played on in this chapter?
   

Haftarah: Jeremiah 34:8-22; 33:25-26

1. What was the consequence for violating the laws of shemitta (the Sabbatical year)?
   
2. What does G-d desire to do? What does He do instead?
   

New Testament: Mark 9

1. What does the transfiguration how the three disciples? What does Peter say he was going to build three shelters? What is Peter talking about?
   
2. What is it that the disciples and the Jewish scholars were arguing about?
   
3. What does Yeshua say that "this one only comes out be fasting and praying?
   

What do we learn from the disciples about what it takes to be "first" and "last?"