 Rabbi Donniel Hartman argued that contains one of Judaism's central answers to the question of what is just and right, what he called “the religious ethic of nonindifference.”

Writing for the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of Conservative Judaism, Rabbis Elliot N. Dorff and Aaron L. Mackler relied on among other verses, to find a duty to help see that our society provides health care to those who need it.Dorff and Mackler noted that the Rabbis found the authorization and requirement to heal in several verses, including according to which an assailant must insure that his victim is “thoroughly healed,” and “And you shall restore the lost property to him.” Dorff and Mackler reported that on the basis of an extra letter in the Hebrew text of the Talmud declared that includes the obligation to restore another person's body as well as his or her property, and hence there is an obligation to come to the aid of someone in a life-threatening situation.Professor William Dever of Lycoming College noted that most of the 100 linen and wool fragments, likely textiles used for cultic purposes, that archeologists found at Kuntillet Ajrud in the Sinai Desert (where the climate may better preserve organic materials) adhered to the regulations in and 

In April 2014, the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of Conservative Judaism ruled that women are now equally responsible for observing commandments as men have been, and that women are thus responsible for the mitzvah of wearing tzitzit, as commanded in 

Professor James Kugel of Bar Ilan University noted that Deuteronomy shares certain favorite themes with Wisdom literature, such as the prohibition of using false weights in and and 23.