Mishpatim 5786 - Following the Majority Ruling, Even When it is Incorrect

Paris Mishbatim deals a lot with the adjudicating and so on. And one of the um points discussed is going with the majority. The Pik says that we won't go with the majority in a case where there is but normally when we have a any type of issue we go um it sounds to us like simple you go with a majority because probably majorities right and so on but it's really really um there's a question to be asked wants the emis and the emis is something which may not be the province of the majority so imagine someone is an incredibly big he's a he's a vaguen he's a world class genius and all with due respect to all the other people in the best he's much smarter than them and uh he knows that they're wrong and he knows that he's right. So wouldn't it be appropriate that he do what's right? Um we can sort of uh sharpen the question with the understanding that a kadesh whose seal is truth and therefore would not want any type of sheh. So why is it that we go after the rabbit? So the says over here and I'd like to maybe spend a minute or two uh thinking into he says um had we been had the core instruction of how to judge a particular would be told do it to the best of your understanding. Then he says um each person would think differently and he says um everyone would have a different opinion. People have different theor would become many many Everyone will decide on his own basis. But now now that we've [clears throat] been told we must accept the rule of the majority, there is one Torah for all of us and that's how we exist. So the says that the reason why that's the um overarching deciser of the is the majority because or else we'd have many many Toros. Let's try to understand why that outweighs the quote unquote truth. Now the simple reason would be because um maybe there's one genius that knows better everybody else. Most people who know better than everyone else quote unquote are far far behind. So that's practical but that's not what the says there will be many Toros. So I'd like to offer two possible understandings of what the core issue of that is. The first is that the um core description is when we say we refer to as that's the description that's meant to be the ultimate description. Now if his tyra is given to each person's understanding it means that the dvarashem and what's what's taught in his name is a million different Toros in a certain sense it's it's sort of um expressing the hea what's what it is expressing is that There are many many gods because there's so many different Toros and therefore in order to express it we must go with majority everybody in Kasol has one um sack and that's what we follow. There's a second understanding of this possibly and it does fit quite into his words has two levels at which he would like the var to be fulfilled. He would like every single person to fulfill the var and he would like the clal as a clal to fulfill the var. Um the as as a community as a nation um expresses that um the the the obedience and the listening to Torah. If you were to have many many different Torah so to speak, then cla is not keeping Torah. Each and every single person is keeping something or other. There's nothing that could say this is to Israel when there are thousand1 different ways and hug him and stuff like that. So it's not just the um you know it's it's like as a cl we have no way of describing the people as keeping Torah and it's um so that creates a Torah and makes one Torah So one reason would be because the affirmation of is by having one Torah and one explanation is as a nation and and truth is it's we say so there's the and there's the and that is they are also and keeping one Torah is the the now the question is what happens again I'm this tremendous genius I know it all and I and I understand better and I know everyone's make a mistake so says when we do as the Sanhedrin tells us. We're doing what really wants from us. That's what he wants from us. And even if they did not get it right, they're the ones who later have to bring, not me. not the so the point is that we have um our if we ask ourselves what is our obligation bottom line obligation is to do what the Sanhedent said to do but even if I know they're wrong I'm doing right by listening to them and doing what they tell me to do and they're going to have to deal with the fact that they they they did not judge. Right? So let's um recap this this whole thing. The Tyra MS is a mida and when we learn Torah we strive to be om and so on. But when it comes to keeping the of the Torah, the Torah um the the the the Torah prioritized a that is binding for everyone and that is called a um the when it comes to them they consider the case they they they think about it and then they make they they pass judgement. That judgment is binding on everyone. The reason for that is because or else says there would be many Torah. We explained one of two explanations and possibly both are correct. One is since Hashem is it's it's a certain um blasphemy to to project many many Torah. So there's no because everyone's got a different Torah that claiming said that two we are not projecting as a clum the adherence to if everyone's think there's no cling to it something else possible support for this point would be um when there's no Sanhedrin or Sanhedrin we have lotus. You can't have many different in one place. There's a difference if there's two or if you have two each person and follows the best that he follows. Now the logic behind that is that a bezdon represents absent uh a sanhedin which encompasses all and pass once that's out a bezden and a community beholding the bezdon represents a cl to a certain sense. So we have twoas you have a sense of a community acting a certain way. If you don't, you have one comm one that allows everyone to do their own thing. Even though we're talking about the level of we're not talking about it also projects a certain sense of there is no that's that's keeping Torah overrides because we have no way of determining and each and every person say it it becomes um an absolute we rely on the Sanhedrin We say that we go with their ro even if they do not get it right now and I know better. I did the right thing by listening to them like the famous story and Gaml where where where Bishu gave into Galileo and Gumil said you're my superior possibly in in learning and understanding but you've appropriately um humbled yourself and accepted my ruling. Bestdin um rules one it means is keeping Torah as one there's one Torah it means that is projected as so when we don't have a Sanhedin each each community represents that comes back we'll have both we'll have the uh everyone keeping the and like they said and it'll