Devorim 5786 - A Dayan Participates in the Very Fabric of Creation

We have a say. So it says over here that a person is supposed to a dian is supposed to judge fairly without being upon anyone because judgment is um the simple meaning is that it's something that is um is telling you to do it and therefore you shouldn't be scared and so on here has a new understanding and he says when you judge someone and you misjudge him you judge him not fairly it's not it doesn't stay as affecting that person because if you if you force someone to pay unjustly will pay him back in a different way. And you're sinning against you are costing Hashem money because he's going to pay him back what the the loss that he gained that he had. And it brings a says now um obviously this is something that is quite deep. It's touches on something mystical but let's just try to get a sense of what it's trying to say. Um we would think the opposite. Hashem is not lacking money has all the gold and all the silver in the world that you could possibly want. So that's not if if if it's coming out of Kash's pocket, uh if I was not terribly scr if my scruples were not terribly great, I would say, listen, it's a win-win situation. I'm I'm getting money to wherever I wanted to go for whatever reason and the person bribed me or who knows what and this other guy is not losing anything because Hashem is paying out of pocket. If a comes to me with a tina that I lost money, What am I going to tell him that you know believe he's not mis the whole thing doesn't seem to really um ring well but what are we what are we trying to say let's try to understand this a little bit um what its meaning is we understand that wants certain things in this world and things have to be in the way and the manner that he wishes it to that is barakum. We understand put into this world a system of mishbut and dinen. That is really what nature is all about. So the laws of nature work that way that if there is a um if on one side we have a positive charge negative ions will have to go to that side and vice versa. Everything in the world is in the world of nature is carefully balanced and you can't quote unquote pull a fast one. It it is it is the hallmark of a kadeshar whose immutable bria that all the pieces are exact. They fit precisely and there is no way to fool around with any of it. That's that's something that's very very fundamental to understanding. Now when we have something that is uh all that's as far as nature goes and things of that that way we also understand that when has done has declared any mishbut in the world then it will happen no matter what. The area where we tend to feel different are the areas of person acquisition. This person made money. This person lost money. This person is well to do. This person's missing. You know, all of those things that we that that that are part and parcel of what normal commerce and economics and things like that over there, we tend to think this person made money. This was that. There's no there's no law of nature. So when I steal from somebody, I'm doing something unjust and and and and hurtful. But I'm not upsetting the law of nature and there's no reason why it would um in any way have to rebound or come around in any way. You know this this person lost because I stole. So the is telling me ore means that the natural economic order that is in the world that Ruven became wealthy and Shim lost money and there was a trans transfer from A to B to C and so on. All of those are certain that has become so to speak a fact has declared that um such and such person has it has shall have this amount of money and so on. However, we also have so on and the on the face of it allows to run things. So Ruben goes and steals money from Shiman. So Ruben has the money and Shim is missing it. And that's why when we, you know, when we catch him, we force them to pay it back. The the there is a world of that allows for people to do things that are not the way wanted it. But since the economic balance of the world is something wants is makes people wealthy and poor then will always have to um make it right. So pro on the face of it I took from Ruven. Ruven has less I have more but somewhere is going to have to rebalance it because Mishbot Mishbut means the the the economic fabric of the world is akadesh. Now, Durra says that if somebody forces a bar to do a nace, it is something that is bad that um we you know the mag and and other cases where certain did something and there was push back that you quote unquote being which means does not want the world to run with constant nissim. He wants the world to run with a tea type of a of of manner and therefore any time we do something which forces keshb do something not the way he had designed it it's wrong it's something that is not appropriate now the um we apply it to this also once we understand that the economic border of the world is also hashem. So if Ruven's field grew a tremendous amount of tu and Shiman did not this is part of the huga this is part of the way who wished that the world um behaved that it be if I steal from gift to shim I can't really do it in the long run so just like if I force something against gravity As soon as as I let loose, it's going to fall because it's it's being pulled by gravity here. Also, the minute my is out of is out of play will somehow make the money come back. So at this point we have a um at this point we have uh understanding of what it means that whenever you are making a misjudgment then what you're doing in effect is distorting the and forcing to engage in ah which He he it it's and it's something which is in other words it's not only a sin against the other person it's a sin against in a very fundamental way I am I am forcing him to conduct his in this world in a way that is and that's so uh when when a dian is in mishbra says that if somebody judges truthfully and appropriately is it's as if he becomes a partner to the occasion of the world. The way explains it this makes a lot of sense. It means that um the economic order in the world is something which is very much in a part and parcel of the function of the world and therefore it is something which is akin to my bracius. Myracious deals with physical facts. Mishbot deals with economic facts. there are no less ronos of Hashem and facts than that. If a person judges rightfully so and that's meant to be part of a process even if let's give a theoretical example imagine that the judge the Dian followed all the rules as he should be but it's still wrong. In other words, the witnesses lied and he did his best to see if the tj not then that's part of the damish of the world and then and then he's not causing any distortion. But if he plays around willingly, willfully, he plays around with with the den and distorts it, he's not only stealing from the person, which is bad enough as it is, but he's really really um distorting Bria just like a dian who is done did a is a mycious a who's not done. He's not trying to to to to to do a correct in is the opposite. He's destroying the brier and that's why he says and what you're going to do is distort that. So the way explains it is telling us um the the the um he's he's portraying for us. He's a really delineating what is it that a dian does. A judge is not just arbitrating between two litigants. He is part and parcel of the very fabric of the world because wants wants the various the economic order that's laid out in the world. it was the Dian when he judges when he adjudicates correctly is becoming a part to it and and he is a partner to to creation which is an incredibly um significant act. Ifam he willfully um is distorting then he's destroying that and that's where and and that's the the bit