(Jewish Group) RBG Wore A Collar With A Torah Verse On The Opening Day Of The Supreme Court

The Supreme Court of the United States opened its new session on Monday, and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg arrived in style.

The 86-year-old Justice wore one of her many collars, or jabots, her signature accessory. Monday’s jabot has special significance — it was created by the Jewish artist Marcy Epstein, and woven with silk so that it reads, along its edge, “Tzedek.”

“Tzedek,” which means justice, evokes the words “Tzedek, tzedek tirdof,” or “Justice, justice you shall pursue,” one of the most famous quotations from the Torah. The blunt moral call of these words, and the exceptional rarity of a repeated word in the the usually spare Torah, has made these words especially immortal. But there’s even more context — the instruction comes from a portion in the final book of the Torah called “Shoftim,” or “Judges,” which begins with instructions for how society should employ judges, and how those judges can be absolutely just.

The full quote is actually, “Justice, justice you shall pursue that you may thrive and occupy the land that your lord God is giving to you.” Without justice-loving leadership, the Torah suggests, people will not be able to thrive in the land.

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