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because in this portion you know we're
going out to war we learn a seemingly
disconnected thing you shall not have in
your pocket a weight and a weight
that's Deuteronomy chapter 25 verse 13.
you shall not have in your pocket to
wait and wait and so this is what people
used to do there was a stone that
weighed let's say a kilo and they would
put on one side of the scale that stone
and then they would put six tomatoes
let's say on the other side of the stone
of the scale and they know that they had
a kilo of tomatoes but with some
dishonest Merchants would do is they
would have two stones one that was 900
grams that they would use when they sold
cheating their customers out of about 10
and when they purchased it would be 1.1
kilo cheating the seller right they had
two stones that's what the Torah is
telling us the door was telling us it's
a bad it's bad stuff it's dishonest it's
trying to grab more than what your
distance to have it's essentially theft
and Rabbi laser Brody quotes every now
when he explains that these stones are
not only about cheating and buying and
selling but also in the way that we tend
to judge others versus the way we judge
ourselves we tend to judge others with
the lighter weight uh well no with a
heavier weight and and ourselves with
the lighter weights and this not only
cheats others out of a fair judgment uh
in our eyes but but we're essentially
harming ourselves when we judge others
like this and what and that's why he
explains that we read this proportion in
elul when we're approaching hashem's
judgment on Rosh Hashanah Rabbi Nathan
explains that no one has the measure of
Mercy that Hashem has and when we judge
our fellow more harshly we're
essentially standing in judgment over
ourselves we'll be judged by how we
judge others and so that's why I want to
conclude by I want to really try right
now to do exactly that as hard as it is
for me I want to say that I really truly
believe that this woman is the product
of thousands of years of persecution and
inquisitions with the non-jewish world
Christians in specific torturing us
until we yield and profess and abandon
our faith and in her mind she's really
on a quest she's really trying to
protect and defend the Jewish people
from those who she she believes are
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