Ki Teitzei, Ki Tetzei, Ki Tetse, Ki Thetze, Ki Tese, Ki Tetzey, or Ki Seitzei (כִּי-תֵצֵא — Hebrew for “when you go,” the first words in the parshah) is the 49th weekly Torah portioan (parshah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the sixth in the book of Deuteronomy. It constitutes Deuteronomy 21:10–25:19. Jews in the Diaspora generally read it in late August or September.

Following the instructions at the end of last weeks Parsha as to how the Israelite is to wage war, Moshe, in Parashat Ki Teitsei, presented 74 Mitzvos which highlight the value that the Torah places on the private domain of person and property, it contains an assortment of mitzvahs in many different areas of life.

The parshah sets out a series of miscellaneous laws, mostly governing civil and domestic life, including ordinances regarding a beautiful captive of war, inheritance among the sons of two wives, a wayward son, the corpse of an executed person, found property, coming upon another in distress, rooftop safety, prohibited mixtures, sexual offenses, membership in the congregation, camp hygiene, runaway slaves, prostitution, usury, vows, gleaning, kidnapping, repossession, prompt payment of wages, vicarious liability, flogging, treatment of domestic animals, levirate marriage, weights and measures, and remembrance of the Amalekites.

Note: On the Shabbat the Torah Reading is divided into 7 sections. Each section is called an Aliya [literally: Go up] since for each Aliya, one person “goes up” to make a bracha [blessing] on the Torah Reading. Here are this week`s aliyot:

1st Aliya: In an illuminating sequence of emotional and legal circumstances,Moshe forewarned us of the moral and familial dangers of warfare. A soldier brings home a non-Jewish female captive. Disregarding rational and obvious differences, he marries her, has his 1st son with her, and eventually resents the discord he has fostered upon himself, his “captive wife”, and his extended family. Attempting to deny his responsibility in the “resentment turned to hatred” breaking apart his family, he attempts to deny his 1st born son’s rights. The law is designed to account for the Evil Inclination, but yet discourage such a marriage.

2nd Aliya: The laws regarding: hanging and burial; returning lost articles; the fallen animal; transvestitism; and the birds nest are detailed.

The Bible has plenty to say about human sexuality. Most basic to our understanding of sex is that God created two (and only two) genders: “male and female He created them” (Genesis 1:27). All the modern-day speculation about numerous genders—or even a gender “continuum” with unlimited genders—is unbiblical. The Bible calls all such gender distortion sin.

3rd Aliya: The laws regarding: guard rails; mixed agriculture; forbidden combinations; Tzitzit; the defamed wife; if the accusations against the wife are true; the penalty for adultery; the rape of a betrothed or unmarried girl; the prohibition against marrying a father’s wife; the Mamzer; and the prohibition against marrying an Ammonite or Moabite are detailed.

4th Aliya: The laws regarding: marriage to Edomites or Egyptians; the sanctity of the army camp; sheltering run away slaves; prostitution; deducted interest; and keeping vows are commanded.

5th and 6th Aliyot:The laws regarding: workers eating while they harvest; divorce and remarriage; military exemptions for a new husband; taking a millstone as security for a loan; the punishment for kidnapping; leprosy; general laws regarding security for loans, are detailed.

7th Aliya: The laws regarding paying wages on time; the testimony of close relatives; concern for the widowed and orphaned; forgotten sheaves of grain; leftover fruit from the harvest; Malkot – flogging; the childless sister-in- law; the assailant and the wife who comes to the rescue; honest weights and measures.

This is the maftir aliyah is also one of the six remembrances that conclude the morning prayer on page 86 of the siddur Tehillat Hashem. This mitzvah is to remember what Amalak did to us on our way from Egypt, and that we must eventually obliterate the memory of Amalak. Jewish tradition teaches that we all have a little bit of Amalak within each of us as the source of our evil inclination. Since the word Amalak has the gematria of 240, and the word for "doubt" (safek) also totals 240, we can see that whenever we have a doubt about doing a certain mitzvah, or even if the doubt just dampens our enthusiasm for a mitzvah, that’s our internal Amalak doing that to us. And here the Torah is enjoining us to obliterate the Amalak within us.