Sublime

23 The members of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land; they were very numerous from Bashan to Baal-hermon, Senir, and Mount Hermon. 24These were the heads of their clans: Epher,[26] Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty warriors, famous men, heads of their clans. 25But they transgressed against the God of their ances

Torah, Hilchos Rotzeiach 12:14. Similarly, in this instance, by lending money without a record, the lender is inviting, so to speak, the borrower to deny the debt, as it were.

Judaism gives voice both to the urge (and obligation) to love one’s people and to the impulse (and obligation) to love all of humanity.111 It refuses to choose one pole and deny the other; it includes and even celebrates both.

This is one of the Songs of Ascent, one of the songs the Israelites sing as they travel on foot—from wherever their tribal allotment happens to be—all the way to Jerusalem, three times a year.