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you um we are in par CH team now I want
to give a little bit of a c caveat we're
going to talk about very contemporary
issues with um Law And
Justice with fun fing or defunding the
police at the end right it's going to
come up these issues that are facing I
think not just American society but
Society all over the
world um Anarchy antifa whatever you
want to call it we're going to be
dealing with those issues because par
begins with the famous verse right
judges and officers shall you appoint in
all your cities
okay now this is specifically talking
about ER the Torah is talking to the
Jewish people right but it's also
getting a message across to the world
isn't that what we are right the Jewish
people are God's ambassadors right
that's what y means Yar or SAR SAR is
the name for an officer for a um
Ambassador for a minister sorry a
minister okay we're the ministers
and in order to get to God the word yes
Al right to go straight to God so on a
certain level those who are Jewish are
watching know they have a we'll call it
a direct connection right and those who
are not Jewish have some additional
barriers that's all now you can remove
those barriers just like the Jews are
here to remove their own barriers we
also have barriers everybody has to work
on themselves on whatever level they're
on and uh God is Not Prejudice put it
that way he might be a Zionist but he's
not Prejudice okay so if every city in
Israel and we're supposed to teach the
world we all know one of the seven
noahide laws is setting up a system of
justice there's a tremendous amount of
wisdom and knowledge that the non-jewish
world should be able to learn from us
but the truth be told we have to do it
ourselves right we have to worry about
ourselves and do it right and through
doing it right there'll be peace they
whatever um influence we could share
with the world right by doing it right
it will have a profound impact on the
world okay so the first thing that Rashi
mentions and we're going to talk about
Rashi in a second let's talk about the
clear what we use here as the outline
for the discussions is the clear and
he's quoting the p as I just
mentioned the are the judges and who are
the Sheltering they're the officers so
right away you know that you need
officers you need enforcers so not only
the judges discussed here that you must
have them you must place them you must
appoint them but you also need enforcers
as
well and but the rest of the verse goes
on and says
now how er Isel is divided up is
according to tribes and according to the
tribes you have cities and every city
has to have their own bait in court and
justices and then it goes on it says and
they shall govern the people with due
justice meaning they should govern
govern they should judge the people
righteously
the
Mish that's the verse now the clear has
a few issues okay in number two of my s
in English it mentions a following let's
say observations by the clear mentioning
these observations we're supposed to
understand these are questions these are
either anomalies in the text where it's
a DHA the daring out meaning there are
lessons that are to be unraveled okay so
one of the things to pay attention to it
says in the
beginning you shall place over you which
means you as an
individual and then it
says then as a result they will judge
the people so you're placing over you
personally which is very strange because
the latter part of the verse is not
consistent they're going to judge the
people why doesn't it say they're going
to judge you that that's the first
question he wants to know how come it's
not consistent where it says h
shouldn't it say they're going to judge
you as as in the beginning place over
yourself so um that's the first part and
then he says the word uh Thea to means
that they will as a result judge the
people he claims that wouldn't it make
more sense the yesu that they will like
they should then judge the people like
future tense as a result of you placing
them over yourself so to speak by
pointing them then they're in a position
to judge the you know where they should
be future tense where they will as
opposed to present tense meaning we're
going to call it it's just an
information a piece of information it's
not a command it's just a fact that they
will judge the people justly okay so fou
is you're going to place them over you
and as a result they will judge others
they will judge the people as a whole
and that is the first paragraph pretty
much now be inan who the way he explains
it is the following in order to
understand it that that verse is
actually commanding those who are in a
position to nominate candidates or
judges for the position of being a judge
so for example in America the president
of the United States puts up as a
nomination a Supreme Court Justice in
many cases a judge is even voted on by
the people but in also many cases
they're appointed okay so if you're in a
position whether it was the president or
one of these other people who can
appoint the judge what is likely to
happen I'll tell you what's likely to
happen the person who appoint appointed
the judge is likely to always be in
favor in the eyes of the judge therefore
it opens the Avenue for
corruption right this para is dealing
with specifically as the clear said it
it is dealing with a command to those
who are in a position to appoint a judge
sh
that the person who's in a position to
appoint should appoint them that they
should be able to be over them meaning
the judge is over you above you and that
you're not in a position to um the word
yenu really means flatter but we're
going to use the word corruption right
that is another concept even even though
the word literally means flattery the
flattery the showing favor is towards
the person that appointed the judge and
therefore this is one of the 613
Commandments you're not allowed to be in
a position to flatter you shouldn't
flatter people flattering means there's
nothing wrong with um you know showing
people your appreciation to put them up
you know and compliment them but when
their strings attached that's the
problem okay when you flatter somebody
with strings attached that's a problem
in other words to show appreciation and
explain how much you appreciate them and
talk about their good points that's if
there's no strings attached that's
appropriate that's kosher right when you
really mean
it so that's the problem here that
people will end up appointing judges so
when you appoint them you must be
without strings attached okay no
favoritism towards the person uh who
appointed and that's why it
says literally place them over you over
you upon yourself the and as a result a
consequence what extends from doing it
properly meaning even more
so as a result that you know these
people are totally honest judges and
they're not going to show you flattery
because they're not that kind of
character they're going to judge the
people as a result favorably meaning not
favorably as I should say righteously
they're going to judge the people
truthfully righteously without fa
showing
favoritism we're four lines down
um these people who you're going to um
appoint as judges they're not going to
show any favoritism to
you and they're not going to show any
favoritism or corruption towards the
people and that's why says
the and they will not a command form but
as a as an information purpose they will
judge the
people just as letting you know this is
what will be
and that will come out as a result
logically okay and then he goes into now
the clear live 400 years ago and he says
what happened 400 years ago in his day
he
says not the way they behave in our
lifetime in our
generation that anyone who has the
ability or in his um right it's his job
description to appoint
judges anybody who has the ability to
appoint
judges he
chooses either relatives or people that
he's familiar with he knows them they're
in the same political party right he's
going to talk about not just relatives
but maybe people from your city people
you have camaraderie
with that when this person whether the
president of the United States or the
person that's in the position to appoint
a judge it's as if it's like you wink
your eye right I'm appointing you but
you know that when I'm in trouble you
have my back right this is called
corruption
okay it's similar as if he made a
condition with him a PCT explicitly even
though he didn't but this is the way it
works in in the corrupt political world
on condition that the person would show
fa favor to him the kanim and that's how
they did it 4 100 years ago the nimak
means that and what comes out of this as
a consequent as a result
that when they judge the people they're
also not judging the people truthfully
righteously you know what happened to
someone who's not a um a person of the
city or a relative people who are very
distant from the judge maybe he's not in
the same political
party the result is they will not judge
them righteously or
truthfully the truth is the judge judge
is required he needs to judge everybody
equally
fairly so that someone could not say to
him now just imagine a court has a
gallery there's people who watch you
know if you're a law student maybe you
sit the whole day you want to watch uh a
court session you're a lawyer so you're
watching and you see case after case can
you imagine the exact same case all the
variables are the same except one is his
relative the judge's relative and one is
from a different city or he's not of the
same political party so someone says to
him you know I
witnessed I witnessed I watched you give
a verdict a a handed down sentences to
your own relatives or people that I know
that you know or even a person of your
own City these are you know these are
examples but it could be your own
political party
I I saw what you did but right now I'm
watching
you you gave a different verdict to
someone else it doesn't make any sense
to me then you know that this system is
corrupt there's no justice and that's a
big problem so the next paragraph begins
like this the
Al by way ofes means a hint there's a
deeper understanding in these verses by
the actual
word we've discussed this before any
time in the five books of Moses that the
word the people appear Rashi says that
we're always talking about the rashim
the rashim are the evil ones other
places Rashi actually mentions these are
the AR RAV the mixed multitudes another
place he says they are the puim the
inferior ones the inferior on the a of
these are all the same they're all
they're all
evil and that's what he
says every place you find the
word we're talking about evil people
like rash explains in numbers go to
numbers 11 verse one it
says the people were complaining you'll
find this on page one number four the
people were complaining in the people
were complaining look at Rashi the
people were looking to complain the word
the people is used only in reference to
the
wicked now when it comes to Hashem and
his relationship with the Jewish people
as a whole he calls them Ami my people
as he says in Exodus
chapter uh 8:16 send forth my people
okay my people people another place in
mikah
6:3 my people what have I done to you as
opposed to this evil people you can find
in
Jeremiah 13 ver 10 okay let's continue
We Now understand the word as to mean
the evil ones and K tell us in Perot
this you can find
in uh chapter 1
mishna 8 it says over there as a judge
what do you have how do you look at the
litigants that are standing before you
so when the litigant are standing before
you look upon them as if they're both
guilty now I know in America we say
you're innocent until proven guilty
that's true you are innocent until
you're proven guilty but once you step
in that courtroom the judge cannot look
at both of you as uh innocent while
you're standing there you're obviously
one of you are guilty but he has to look
at you evenly so he's not going to make
any judgment imagine somebody walks into
the courtroom clean shaving nice haircut
nice
suit looks like a decent guy and he's
claiming the other guy stole from him
and the other guy looks like let's say a
drug addict or a some kind of you know
miscan a bum who can't take care of
himself and uh you as the judge should
not come to any conclusion I usion that
this cleancut guy businessman looking
guy is innocent even though he's making
the claim it could be a false claim have
you ever heard of such a thing of course
so he has to say look in my eyes right
now until we get through this now what
happens once you give once the judge
gives the sentence the determination of
what has to be done this guy has to pay
the other guy money guess what happens
as soon as it's accepted by either one
of the parties both parties accept the
judgment both parties are now looked as
righteous okay and that's what it says
it says uh and when they leave your
presence look upon them as if they were
both innocent when they accepted the
Judgment now accepting the judgment is
very important part because obviously if
you give the judgment and the guy is
going to scream and
yell and not appeal in a proper way so
perhaps I don't know you call him
contempt of court and he has another
list of guilt on him okay anyway so
let's continue we basically
quoted when the litigants are standing
before you
you they should you should be looking at
them as the judge as if they're both
evil now we understand why in our verse
it says
the as a result they will also judge the
people when they're standing there in
the courtroom as litigants making their
claims you're looking at them as all the
rest of the people which means
evil because the idea of and and are
like nicknames that are
interchangeable they're basically the
same in terms of
character therefore at the very end when
it says M the very end of that verse
meaning that the the judge will give a
righteous judgment when is that that's
after after the verdict has been
given then whatever was evil whatever
was considered negative is now
transformed into positivity and
righteousness and you as the judge you
will look at them as
righteous once they both accept upon
themselves whatever judgment you hand it
down
we're in the fourth paragraph it
says as we quoted the verse right judges
and officers you shall place now what
does that
mean Place upon yourself Place upon
yourself
what you as a judge what are you trying
to accomplish you want to bring Justice
into the world you want to bring things
that are fair right because what's
happening this guy stole money or owes
money and therefore it's as long as he's
not paying it back it's like stealing so
you want to make sure that the money
goes back to the person it belongs to so
your job is basically giving rebuke
you're holding this this other guy's
money you have to give it back and
everything will be fair so before you
can give rebuke to anybody else before
you can bring Justice to everyone else
you have to act with Justice you have to
beautify yourself first by working on
your own character you have to be in
good stead so it
says which means ornament yourself first
make yourself beautiful be a beautiful
human being with through your character
by acting justly and only afterwards
V then you can judge those evil
people and then you can beautify others
because that's going to be your job as a
judge
it's an interesting Bas I under I
underlined the point in the middle of
the paragraph any judge who is actually
accused of something remember you're
innocent until proven guilty any judge
who's summoned to judgment and money is
lawfully taken from him meaning he lost
the case and he has to pay
money guess what it says he's not
considered a judge but the the gamor
here in Baba baser 58b has a question of
course aren't you innocent just because
you were
accused so when they heard this they
wrote and a denim an addition to the
original inscription and this is how
they say it the Elders of the Jews say
that any judge who is actually summoned
in judgment and they had the word they
add the word and and money is lawfully
taken from him is not considered a judge
in other words if you have a record
it already went to court and you lost
and you paid money even though we say in
the eyes of the judge you're both
righteous it doesn't matter you could be
righteous all you want you cannot hold
the position of a judge if you were
corrupt in the past it's very nice you
can live your your life as a good person
but you will not and should not be put
in position to be a
judge now we're going to go to verse 19
again we are in part sh team if if you
didn't know where we were I apologize
we're in chapter 16 of Deuteronomy we're
now on verse 19 we started with 18 now
we're in 19 and it
says which means like this do not
pervert
Justice I'm going to put a comma
there do not show
favoritism and now I'm going to add the
word and you'll see there's a v
and don't take
bribery now notice there's only a V
after the third category we listed three
things don't pervert Justice don't show
favoritism and don't take a bribe
there's only a v a is a it connects it's
like the word and the word and only
appears between the second and third
category the clear wants to explain why
Category 3 is not a category in itself
but it's a subcategory of two so you
have a and b and then you have a
subcategory of B he says like
this the very fact that you do not have
a v by character two of don't show
favoritism but you do have a v by the
third category do not and do not take
bribery what do we learn from this we
learn that grouping number one which is
do not pervert Justice grouping number
two which is do not show F favoritism
they are called like major categories in
themselves they are Concepts that exist
on their
own that's how it's listed but when it
comes to
low do not take bribery it's a to it's a
subcategory of B of number two do not
show favoritism
why is that let me say it outside the
word punim lowak your punim do not show
favoritism literally means do not
recognize a face the word Pim is face
Genesis
41 verse 56 when ysep was in charge of
Egypt and it said now the famine and
spread over all the face of the land and
Joseph then opened up all the
storehouses he waited to open up the
storehouses only when the famine
affected everybody who are usually the
last people to be affected by a famine
the rich people the rich people because
either they have storehouses of their
own or because they still have money to
buy things or both right they have one
or the other or both so once it affected
everybody as the verse says now the
famine spread over all the face of the
land Joseph opened all the storehouses
look at Rashi the very
beginning who are the face of the
land panim face they are the rich once
the rich were affected then everybody
was affected cuz they're the last ones
to be
affected so when you go to this point
where it says don't recognize a face and
then don't take re don't take bribery
would you ever even consider trying to
get a bribe take money from a poor
person
you're you're jumping uh there's there's
like little chance to get a even a penny
so the only kind of people that a person
who's interested in taking a bribe from
is someone who has money which we call
them Rich okay so let's go back into the
klear he mentioned that when it came to
do not take bribery that is a
subcategory of Group B do not show
favoritism low talk P since aim rich
people are called p
because the the they're called the face
the face of the Earth we saw in Rashi in
Genesis
now when it says do not show favoritism
it means the rich which are called the
face of the
earth when you don't recognize them when
they're not
rich obviously you're not going to take
any bribe you're not even going to even
hope for it it's only when they're rich
there is even a glimmer of hope that
perhaps you might get a
payoff it's only when you recognize
someone as being rich that on account of
that there's this little glimmer of hope
of getting a bribe in order that you
would receive from that person okay I
hope this is all clear at this point
we're going on to H the very last line
on page one the actual
language I translated as perverted now
what does it really mean it really means
to lean see how I'm leaning
leaning when you H we think about
Justice there's
scales right just like the month we're
about to approach is
called KV no that's Hanukkah Tish Tish
is the scales what do you have in Tish
you have rashash Shana you have 10 days
of chuva you have yam kipur you have 70
carbonos for the non-jewish world on
sukus you have hos Raba which the whole
world is sealed in judgment the non-jews
and then finally on sheris the final uh
day for the Jews just to imagine for a
second okay that month that month's
zodiac sign is the MOs Nim is the scales
of Justice because the whole month is
full of Justice now what are we talking
about here the concept of means to lean
meaning the scales of Justice are
leaning don't pervert them remember you
have to look at everybody equally as it
says both litigant have to be equal when
they walk into your court in your eyes
as if they're both sitting in this scale
of Justice
equally equally not one leaning heavier
than the
other without one leaning more to the
other
side that's what it means low talk your
P do not show
favoritism you have to make it as if you
don't recognize either one of them even
though you may you have to make it like
you don't you have to be honest and try
your best to be as objective as possible
now very interesting the language of
Shad literally means bribe right do not
take a bribe that's what it
says so what are we talking about the
bribe is the money now we don't know
that yet we don't because we can use
bribery as a verb correct but what do we
call the people that are involved we
don't call them bribers is that is that
a word no we call it the money now
listen to what he says according to if
you look in Gus
105b and I underlined the point
here um well he says in the CLE
car that he becomes one the judge
becomes one with the one giving the
money what does that mean look at the
underline it can be read as
as he is one at one mind with the
litigant innocent right obviously the
one giving the
bribe he he wants you to declare him
innocent okay so you're of one mind the
word and are the same root
okay that's at least according to the
gamor you'll see the clear has a little
bit of a difference of a Nuance here
he's not happy with this opinion
but you can't go against the gamar so
basically it's another level so what
does he say we're on the second
paragraph the top line of the second
page that the judge the one receiving
the bribe and the one giving the bribe
they become one that's what the gor
explained they're
one a person does not judge himself
unfavorably right you become one with
him
why you going to declare him innocent
because you didn't even think you did
anything wrong by taking the bribe
you're like the most innocent kind of
Judge right that's how you think of
yourself it's very hard it's very
difficult for us to think anything
negatively of ourselves we always want
to think
positively well that's all nice and good
so
far according to the clear this is not
so clear he's not happy and I'll tell
you why he's not
happy because the word bribe is really
the name attached to the money that's
called the bribe and not on the name of
the litigant not on the name of the
owners of the people the one who gave it
or the one who received
it question mark explanation point what
on account of the fact that these human
beings these people they become onm
minded that's why we're going to call
the
money on that name remember it's the
money not the people so here he goes he
says nearish the best way to explain it
is this
way does not have to mean one can mean
like the
word means sharp
sharp now if you look in Proverbs
277 it says barel barel y iron sharpens
iron now I have a little bit of being a
a chef in my background and I know that
a sharp knife anybody who worked in the
kitchen should know a sharp knife is
much easier to deal with truth is it's
more dangerous you can get cut quite
easily but it can slice a
tomato like quicker than you know
cutting through butter right okay or if
you don't have a Shar a dll knife you
could be you know that you could squeeze
that tomato till no end and still not
cut it right cuz it's the dull knife so
the the sharper it is the quicker it
cuts okay you hear what I'm going with
this so basically he says like this that
the word in
Hebrew the word it means
sharpen what happens when you sharpen
right if you had a microscope and you're
looking at the very tip so the tip get
sharper and sharper it becomes more like
one as opposed to something that's dull
that might have right you know what I'm
saying sharp so sharp it comes to a a
thinner Point as we say sharpness so he
says like
this that the money itself is similar to
a sharp knife that cuts
quickly that every judge like it says in
per a judge needs to
be you we should all be like cuz we're
all judging all the time we have to be
slow and deliberate in our judgment
don't be so
quick okay but when you receive
money when you receive that bribery what
happens it's automatically already a
judgment has been made in your mind that
this guy's innocent he just gave you
money you got that envelope you stuck it
in your pocket you know now what the
verdict is going to be doesn't matter no
matter how long you deliberate you've
already determined that he's
innocent but once you receive that
money you know exactly immediately who
is
how you know exactly which uh uh how
those scales are going to be determined
right
away and you cut through that judgment
quickly just as one cuts through with a
sharp
knife and it's no longer the judge who's
giving the
Judgment it was the money that cut the
deal the money made the deal it's the
money that cut through and made the
verdict and that is sharp
we just discuss this idea that the judge
has to be
slow deliberate
careful modest when he brings down a
judgment and through this through going
through the evidence and thinking
clearly actually I should say like this
by if you God forbid don't right you're
going to go quickly what's going to
happen I'm sorry let's just read the
words and I'll explain
it now if you go too slow then what
happens is you might come to oppress the
Judgment by delaying the Judgment more
than is necessary in other words we just
got discussing discussing how you need
to be going slow but don't go too slow
too slow can also have its ramifications
and that's 20 says
seded a double language righteousness
righteousness you shall Chase
rode
Chase Isaiah in the very first chapter
Isaiah 1 verse
21 he says that righteousness rested in
her understand this is rebuke
let me explain something outside when
you're sitting in a court you're you're
a judge and you're sitting with your
companions and you're discussing where
it's leaning towards you didn't give a
judgment yet if you're leaning towards
him being guilty in a capital crime
we're talking about the death penalty we
don't have all kinds of appeals and
sitting in in a jail cell for 20 30
years we
take when we have the St HED of course
they take action quickly the same day
he's to be de to be put to death he's
put to death in capital
crime so if you're leaning towards a
guilty verdict they decide we will make
the announcement
tomorrow why life depends on it it's a
good thing okay so if he's leaning
towards innocence they should declare it
immediately
today why if he's towards the guilt we
wait till tomorrow because maybe there
will be new Witnesses maybe uh evidence
will be discovered towards his innocence
okay makes a lot of sense okay so what
are we saying here that Isaiah was
rebuking the people because what they
did they were doing the
opposite they were taking people who are
guilty leaning towards guilt and
declaring their guilt
today taking out the judgment and those
who were innocent leaning by night
um resting overnight on it and let's
read the
words basically it's talking about
setting up a system of justice and then
it says I command you at all at at that
time all the things you should do there
it's a hint to the 10 different things
that separate monetary cases from
capital crimes Capital cases this is not
really uh it's not really applicable to
our discussion here but BAS basically he
said he discusses it on that verse
meaning the cleard went at length to
discuss it over
there the idea is that when someone is
leaning towards innocence and their life
it's it's a capital crime uh we finish
it if they're innocent we tell them
they're innocent that
day but if they're going to be put to
death it's only the next
day this is what Isaiah he was giving
them rebuke because the people at that
time were reversing the uh the
procedure they were leaving overnight
the uh the
righteous people who are innocent they
remained in incarcerated for an extra
day now we understand when it
says righteousness you shall chase after
quickly what does it say
the whole idea of Ro is pursuing
pursuing running it means doing it
quickly that somebody should quickly
about the judge they go quickly to give
the the the Judgment the
verdict when they know and have
clarified that they're leaning towards
innocence righteous now righteous is
doubled
over so
the very fact that is used
twice one means in terms of
righteousness you need to do you need to
judge righteously
correctly and the other one is to
exclude the one where you're leaning
towards a guilty verdict that you would
be obligated to a delay just by one day
okay I think we're going to read this
last paragraph like this
alternatively the
word is considered like this like a
sword not just any sword a sharp
sword it's like a sharp sword that does
what the cuts through
there's when we're going to talk
about is
corruption is oppression delaying
Justice they're both is
bad when when there's a corruption in
the court
it's it brings God forbid it brings a
very bad judgment onto the world and I
want you to look on page four when it
says Perot Chapter 58 the bottom line
says a sword comes to the world for the
procrastination of
Justice the corruption of justice and
because of those who misinterpret the
Torah
okay so we're dealing with both these
ideas that a comes because of corruption
like we learned in 58 which we just
read the the idea of a sword comes to
the world meaning horrible
things also on
oppression so now we understand for
both so the is going to go what we're
going to call the corruption part that's
called because it's it's sharp like a
sword
here the same m per is
explaining
the the um the oppression meaning
holding off not giving it right away if
he's innocent and that's why it
says righteousness righteousness you
shall chase after shall
pursue that one should be quick to say
the
judge if Joe Smith is or Joe Schwarz is
innocent you should declare he is
innocent to reveal his
righteousness in order that he shall
live now I want to go to the next
paragraph because that's going to be key
to and summarizing everything we talked
about in order that he should live to
not to save the person from The Sword
okay so you understand that if you do
or it can cause the to come to the world
and it means that the innocent person
could end up dying because you were too
quick um to give a negative judgment now
in the same verse verse 20 it says
the now it's a very interesting verse
and I want to make sure we have it clear
I think this is number 12 on page four
justice justice shall you pursue
said Le why that you may live and
possess the land of the Lord the land
the Lord your God is giving
you okay that this is in order for you
to be able to live in the land and it's
very important and I think this is a
very important not just to Jews but to
um as we say the Ben no even outside the
land of Israel Parish Rashi what do we
know by this verse Rashi mentions that
what does it mean that you may live and
actually possess the land the appointing
the appointment of fitting judges is
sufficient Merit to keep Israel alive
and settled in their land okay okay so
apply it as you want where you live
without the Merit of appointing
righteous judges you are basically
forfeiting a settlement you're
forfeiting the ability to live in that
place so I'm hoping all my Jewish
brothers and sisters will understand
what we're talking about here that's
what Rashi says
listen it's fitting right in the Merit
of a Point thing righteous judges kosher
judges in order to keep Israel
alive in order for them to be able to
dwell in their land now the the
word is in order to keep yourself
alive if we hadn't learned
this I'm sorry if we didn't have fear if
there was no fear if there was total
Anarchy if people didn't have some fear
I'd say a healthy fear hopefully of the
government is
as as it says in
per chapter 3 Mish 2 it says rabina
Deputy to the kohanim would say pray for
the Integrity of the government for were
it not for the fear of of of its
Authority a man would swallow his
neighbor
alive below right there would be
absolute Anarchy you couldn't walk in
the streets and I hate to tell you this
I mean you watch the news there's
certain cities that you you know there
certain parts of certain cities that you
know you you wake up Sunday morning and
you find out 30 50 70 people maybe even
more shot at people are beaten in the
streets and you know what happens I I
want to save this for the end but you
all know what happens the the police are
being defunded the police anyway try to
bring them in then there's a rule that
says he can be freed without
bail right first of all the prosecutor
says we're not Prosecuting him and even
if they would they would let him go the
next day and he goes out the person goes
out and commits either the same crime or
worse because there's no fear of the
government I hope I'm making
myself crystal clear okay now let's see
what happens
this is why they
say by appointing koser judges fit
judges you're causing the people to live
Roar meaning to say you will people will
not swallow each other
alive and then as a
result they will be able to dwell in
their land as it says in Proverbs chap
29 verse4
it's the king establishes the country
with Justice but a man tears it down so
we have this verse in Mish King Solomon
is pretty smart
guy but the whole ruining of the justice
system causes a destruction I hope this
message is coming across clear
now for those that are familiar with the
flood of Noah this alone should have you
should have gotten the message then
right it's Crystal Clear over there that
because of the hasat because of the the
corruption of the Flesh and the
destruction uh that's right we saw
destruction from that but Jethro himself
says it in Exodus chapter
18: 23 but I'll say 22 and 23 right it
was his idea he says they shall judge
the people at all times and and it shall
be that any major matter they shall
bring to you Moshe and they themselves
should judge every minor matter meaning
the whole uh tier system of of different
size courts thereby making it easier for
you Moshe and they shall bear the burden
with you it's not just on your shoulders
and then this is the most important
thing Jethro says if you do this thing
you have a proper system of justice and
and the Lord commands you you will be
able to survive you'll be able to what
to live and also all this people will
come to their place in peace we're going
to focus now on some of these ideas
about coming to their place in peace
because it's a very strange language
the and also this people in their place
will come in peace well let's use their
translation will come upon their place
in peace which means like this havar the
clear says what it should have said is
each
person in his place
y will dwell in peace that would make
more that would make a better flow of
the verse but again we're not God God
has a message let's wake up and smell
the coffe and here what God wants
so it doesn't say each person right each
person should sit under his own fig tree
right next to his own pool in his own
yard no it says it says also the whole
people the whole people we live with
other people we're not an island right
we're not sitting on an island we're not
sitting as like a guru on or a monk on
some Mountain Top by ourselves all the
people so it says like this we're
speaking about a place CL a general
place that
is that is either unique or I would say
designated for
everybody so we're talking about a time
where you want to go there this is like
a goal we want to get there we want to
arrive to that place
so Andro remember he was in the desert
with us we don't even know if he came in
the end Earth is who stayed there but
he's telling mosha you want to get there
you want to get to the promis land man
the promised land and you want to stay
there so you better get your act
together with the di you want to have a
yesu you want to be able to to dwell in
the land in peace you must have proper
judges and that's basically how the CLE
car ends this piece truth is he goes on
but we don't have time to go through
anymore I have to go
to um but I just want to mention that
this idea of corruption when you have a
a legal system that is corrupt and and I
mentioned already where they say that
yeah you don't have to pay any bail just
go home right wrongdoing not even wrong
anymore right I can sympathize right
like in in California if you steal less
than
$900 they can't do anything you go in
and you choose a TV the newest TV I
don't know what the newest one cost but
$899 you can walk out free I'm not en
encouraging this trust me I don't I'm
not encouraging I'm just telling you how
corrupt the system is you didn't even do
anything wrong if you stole less than
$900 in the system's eyes do you realize
how wrong that is and that's why all
these companies Walmart Best Buy
whatever it is over there they're
leaving they don't want anything to do
with California
was why should they they'll just go
bankrupt everyone will walk in what what
happened what happened in sadome right
sedom people would steal someone would
walk through the market carrying a um a
a big um basket of fruit and everyone
would take one gra because it's less
than a Chev it's almost meaningless by
the time the guy get to the end of the
fruit market he looked at his basket
there was nothing in there and you
couldn't take anybody to court because
the court system said we don't recognize
if you steal less than a certain amount
we don't care we it's not a crime we're
not going to we're not going to judge
those cases okay so not only did the
door of Mau the generation of the flood
prove our case with the destruction but
also Sone that's a good example
basically if you steal less than $900
you get out of jail free card and now
what about defunding the police show
you should be paying for it of course we
need it we need to instill some level of
a healthy fear and it shouldn't be fear
obviously I've seen some of these videos
where the police are just so kind and so
nice and they go to the the inner
neighborhoods you know the where the
people have a lot of risk of of turning
out bad and they play basketball and
they they Polie Athletic League I just
remember my grandfather he was a big he
was a big uh brother in The Police
Athletic League in Philadelphia and um
he used to take me to the fights he used
to take me to the the boxing ring and he
says yeah that I sponsor that guy I
sponsor that guy he he'd buy them school
supplies you know he was like they
didn't have a father at home and so you
know there's so many things you can do
so this was organized by the police
there's so many things that the police
are doing to try and to no avail because
the the the system is so corrupt
um even so many police are just quitting
resigning early and who wants who wants
such a job so obviously the whole system
has to be uh revamped to get back to our
morals back to the Torah and um this is
only the beginning I didn't go through
the whole CLE car so I invite you to
open up a CLE car yourself now that you
got some Hebrew right if you paid
attention you went through the words the
same word words will appear again some
sometime and so I want to wish everybody
a fantastic shabas I want to mention
we're in the month of el soon the whole
world's going to be judged get let's get
our act together right we'll be judged
by Hashem so let's like fall in line
right let's do what we need to do as
human beings as Jews non-jews whatever
category you're in and hopefully you'll
be a righteous Gentile and want to
convert that's get in touch with me
there's plenty of people I'll just
direct you someone else I'll help you
I'll guide you that's all I can do um
but anyway thank you okay anyway so
Shalom C
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