Mishpatim - What's Right is Right

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with ari goldwag recorded with hashem's neverending assistance in ramap hms israel 5781 2021 this week's parachute is partisan and just as a context it's important to understand that as you read the parsha the beginning of our partial gives us numerous different laws involving vienna de monchaver between man and his fellow different ideas we'll discuss a few of them and then at the end of the partial so the torah returns to the narrative of kabul satoru the jewish people receiving the torah and talks about how moshe and then goes up on tarsina to mount sinai where he stays for 40 days and 40 nights so the laws which comprise the beginning of our parasha are part of the story of kabbalah satoru what the jewish people received that which the torah the jewish people received during kabbalah satora during that time it's important to understand that these laws are part of the story it wasn't just it seems to me it wasn't just that sarasota's the ten commandments that were given at mount sinai but rather all of these laws were part of what they received at that time i'd like to share with you a madrish based on the kim the message goes through a few different ideas through a few different concepts that the torah places next to each other and it teaches us a very profound lesson about why the torah places these ideas one after the other the first is this is in chapter 22 verse 24. in case of if you shall lend money to a person someone who's who is poor other kinesia so you're not allowed to constantly go and check and see when you're going to pay when are you going to pay you can't press him and you also can't take any ribs you can't take [Music] now when a person takes a loan so sometimes they need to back up the loan guarantee they're going to pay it back and one of the ways that the person who's lent the money can guarantee that he's going to receive the money see he takes an object which belongs to the person that he borrowed that borrowed from him and he holds on to that object and he says okay when you pay me back i'll give you back the object kind of like a palm sha a pawn shop now when a person takes as the the item the mushroom the guarantee so unless he takes something tells us which the person needs to use let's say he takes his pajamas make sure to give it back to him when he needs it in the morning he takes his the guy is a a digger that's what he does for a living he digs if you take his shovel you gotta return to him the shovel in the morning he has to be able to have the use of his item you can hold on to it when he's not using it so specifically the puzzle is talking about you took the person's clothing as the mushkin as the guarantee that i'll pay so if you take his clothing make sure you give it back to him in the morning that's his clothing he's a poor person covers his flesh if you take his pajamas you gotta return by the time it comes tonight he's gotta have something to sleep in okay he's gonna call out hashem says if the person is poor and he calls out to me i'm gonna listen if he complains about you that's the first concept the first concept that the major mentions is this idea that a person has an obligation to return it hashem is going to hear hashem is going to know hashem knows hashem sees our relationships with others if we're treating other people properly if we are returning those things that need to be returned if we're treating people who have borrowed from us in a way which is appropriate or classification we're doing something which is wrong because hashem says i will hear because i am compassionate now the next verse seems to be talking about something completely unrelated elohim low to kalel do not curse the judges elohim here does not mean hashem it means judges do not curse a prince in your nation somebody who is considered important in your nation don't curse that person we'll see soon what exactly the context of it is why would a person be cursing somebody i mean we could just think pasha you know somebody is upset at what a judge has done someone is upset about the way a certain leader was was behaving so they'll curse the person that's forbidden by the torah two concepts which again don't seem to be related but they are as we'll soon see in the madrish which is that there's an obligation to give true muslims to give tithes on a person's grant on his produce make sure you don't push that off make sure you give those contributions your obligations make sure you give them on time and finally of the things that we'll discuss here today is the idea there's an obligation you're first born males you have to give them to god what does that mean it means as i did by hashem with my firstborn moshidov about 18 years ago almost 18 years ago um you have to be party to him you have to redeem him we'll see more about it but you have to redeem your son he belongs in a certain sense to god so you go to a coin to a priest you give the priest a certain amount of money and you redeem your child and now the child belongs to you because the first born just like the first fruits we have an obligation to give them to god our firstborn children we have to give them to god to dedicate their lives to the service of hashem the cohen who replaced in a certain sense the firstborn in the midbar in the wilderness the firstborn originally were the ones were supposed to be bringing the corbonas the sacrifices they were the ones who were slated to be the servants of god they were replaced by the cayenne so we have to redeem them from the kohen get them back as it were that's what the posik talks about now what is the idea behind these what is their connection so i'd like to share with you just an unbelievable madrish russian are so beautiful so powerful and i'd like to share with you the idea behind this mattress it says like the shamatis so in the first place which speaks about the obligation of a person between man and his fellow to return the the item which he has as a mushroom which has a guarantee of his loan watch out hashem says i'm going to hear about it i'm compassionate i'm going to hear the prayers of the poor person if you haven't returned that item so what does it say immediately after that elohim look to kalo don't curse out don't curse the judges um why do we have these two concepts next to each other says it's speaking about the reason that it places it next to each other is not the person that's not just doesn't like judges therefore he curses them out it's not just the person who doesn't like the the the leaders and curses them out rather we're talking about a specific case the first case this the the case where a person had taken something which wasn't rightfully his any and he held on to it in a way which was inappropriate that's a diminish that's something which is the circumstance of a two people one person is taking something unlawfully from another person it's called dinmaman it's something that has value it's something that that's between two people that has monetary value that is the case of the cursing out says the madrish of the of the judge i don't have a senator i said there is that's the reason they're placed next to each other there's a certain person who had a judgment who bites allah dying with zika and he came with the other party to the judge and he won the case the guy who won the case he came out of the court and he was like wow what a great judge nothing like it in the world nothing like him no one like him in the world now not long afterwards this same guy who won the first case he has a second case he brings somebody else a different circumstance a different din and he loses the case the second case he left he walked out of the case and he said this is the dumbest judge i ever met what a fool because he lost okay that's why the positive is telling us that when it comes to your personal matters your dna ominous your interactions with your friends people bringing you to court don't curse the judge don't curse the judge if you lose out don't curse the judge now we get to the third concept okay the third concept is the concept of giving us an isis giving on the grains that we've received the bounty that we've received taking off the tides and giving them to the cohen to the priests the levy and the levites says says the reason that the pastor places the idea of not cursing a judge next to the idea of giving truman mice is giving our tithes on the grains is because it's teaching us that if a person curses the judge so then what's going to happen is the person is really cursing himself because he's going to lose out he's going to his grains are not going to grow properly you're cursing your own through your own produce the simple meaning of the word is don't push off giving your tithes but it could also be understood as don't push off don't cause a a delay in your crops producing that which they're meant to produce the reason it tore places the idea of not cursing a judge next to that idea of the thais and the produce is to teach you that if a person curses the judge it will cause his own the curse will rebound upon him and he will lose out the produce will not produce properly if things will be late things will be delayed it's not going to work out well that's the magician of course we need to understand what is this measure saying if i curse the judge how does that cause that i lose out with my crops what is the idea what is the connection now uh of the book of ruth of russ chapter one verse one by he be mainstreamed it was in the times of the judges and there was a famine in the land what is schweitzer understands the madrish as the fortune explained shweta scheiften means that people judged their judges they didn't respect the judges they didn't respect the sock the judgment of the judges and because they didn't respect the judge judgment of the judges therefore there was a famine in the land the result of not respecting our judges is that we bring upon ourselves heaven forbid i want to say ourselves people who don't respect their judges they bring upon themselves a famine their their food the production of their food doesn't happen they lose their parnassa we need to again understand why the kahneman now another thing as we said the torah is telling you don't push off taking off your true muslim myself giving your tithes from your produce this obligation to make sure you do it on time also says the madrish don't do it out of order there's a certain order you give trumas you give them isis first you give to the coin then you give to the levite top don't do it out of order don't first give to the levite and then to the to the to the priest there's another mystery another tie there's a certain amount of the person supposed to take off from their produce to bring to jerusalem to eat it in jerusalem shalom make sure you do it in order first you take off my seresian then you take on my sashimi do it in order then we have the end of the pasuk the last concept of the four concepts which was obligation to uh i'm sorry give the first born to god if you do it correctly if you take things off correct you do things in the right order and this by the way is the hint to what's going on in the entire madras if you do things in the right order so then the tar is telling us by placing these two ideas next to each other if you do things in the right order with your true mess and isis you give off your tithe in the right way to the right people the right amounts so then you get an unusual reward your rewards that you're going to have bottoms of home you're going to have male children you're going to have boys shenanigans says explaining this and as i'm before shame explain i shall explain so the idea is that since a person respects quran you respect the priests you give them their tithe in the proper order so it's a throwback to what it was in the midbar in the time of the wilderness the firstborn sons of the jewish people were the priests but he the young ones of the children of israel okay so the the ones who were bringing the corbanas bringing the sacrifices originally and the firstborn with the golden calf so the result was replaced the firstborn sons with the levites when he gives proper when he gives a proper shiva's a proper significance to the levites to the khan or the priests he gives them their tithes he shows his appreciation for the fact that they are serving god so then he merits himself to have a firstborn son to have sons because sons represent those who serve god as they did originally that's why the verse says the first borns of your sons you shall give to me that's why it follows the idea of giving our true son isis our tithes in the right order and imagine obviously we need to understand the flow of these measures it seems to be completely different ideas one into another but the measure is trying to tie us together these four ideas in the sukim that are that seem to be unrelated and i like to explain really a profound idea really a deep idea the message is teaching us that it's important to know the place of things it's important to know who's who it's important to know what's what who's right who's what's good what's correct everything in its place we don't have that ability to know we're not god we don't know who's who and what's what we don't know where things belong what do i mean a person is rich person is poor why does this person have money why does this person not have money a person is talented a person has no talent or maybe has to every person has talent but maybe they're not able to bring out their talent why is that why does that happen why is it that one person can can become extremely successful another person doesn't have such great success why are these things this way we don't know we don't know however what we do know is that hashem knows hashem decides hashem decides exactly how much a person is supposed to have how wealthy they're supposed to be exactly how much money they're going to have exactly how successful they're going to be exactly they're going to they're going to invest in the right stocks this one's going to invest in the wrong stocks everything hashem is in charge of pulling the strings deciding who's who and what's what and that is all decided on rosh hashanah every single year hashem decides it's affected perhaps by our actions by our citrus by righteousness how good we are the things that we're doing etc but we don't know see that's the the mistake of this guy okay the guy takes he's rich right and he lends the poor guy money and he says you know i want to guarantee that you're going to pay me i don't know you're going to pay me so i want you to guarantee it so give me your give me your your shirt this is what i know you're gonna pay cause you want your shirt back the torah says give back the shirt when he needs it in the morning the rich guy says you know it's my money i want the shirt i want to see my money back he thinks he knows better than god he thinks he know better who knows better than god and hashem promises him don't make any mistakes i'm going to hear this i know about this i'm going gonna hear his complaint i know the truth i decided that you will have this money i decided that he will be poor you don't don't mess with that don't mess with the way things are you make sure you give back that shirt in the morning if he doesn't pay you back that's also part of my decisions it's also part of my decisions you come in front of a judge the judge says you're great you win you're you're correct you get the money valdic unbelievable a few days later the same guy gets a judgment from the judge hey i lost this judge as a fool that person is the fool why is that person a fool because first of all in the push-up shot of it a simple understanding of the reality the judge is a person who has studied god's torah who has studied the law of hashem and he has worked on it he spent his entire life dedicated to that and based on that he decides to whom the money belongs to who is the who is correct so he's more aligned that's why you go to a judge he's more aligned with the word of hashem and therefore what do i know i'm namahara i have a right to say he's wrong or he's right i don't know anything i don't know the place of things i do not understand the place of things besides for that once again hashem also puts him ahead of the judge the decisions that he makes god is there right there standing there when there are judges judging god is involved directly involved everything that happens god is part of it there's hashikaka the person who says it's the judge he he stole my money the judge is wrong he's a fool that person is a fool because he doesn't recognize he doesn't see everything in its correct place he's missed something and what is the result of that the result is as the measure says that the person's tua will not produce properly hashem deals with us the way we deal with him if a person doesn't recognize that the things that happened to him are indeed exactly as god has planned them exactly as god has planned them if a person doesn't have that fundamental faith the result is that he leaves himself over to nature and he loses out he loses out he's beholden to the to nature and when a person understands and believes completely that hashem is all there is and what he has is exactly what hashem determined for him he he's transported into a higher place and blessings come to more when you're in the place of hashem you get more you're aligned with god god is the ultimate goodness so he gets left when we judge our judges we think that we know better than them things are out of place when things are out of place things get out of place more that's just how it goes now what happens in the next part what happens when we take off trumpets and meisters what happens when we give them in the right order when we give the truman system we give the tithes in the correct order first to the coin then to the levite then we take off the stuff that we're going to eat in jerusalem we're going to give the maestro honey to the poor person depending on the year what is what do we prove we prove that we respect the place that hashem put each person we show that we respect that the kind has a certain kedusha is a certain role as a certain goal his place in the hierarchy of the jewish people is one of leadership one of spirituality one of serving god acting on our behalf when we show that we recognize that that's how hashem set up the world that's how we set up the jewish people what do we get we get more we get more we get to have our children our children will be the baha'im the bonim which doesn't per se have to mean i mean it's the push-up shot of course doesn't personally have to just mean that they're going to be boys the magisk is using it to the concept of the boy the son to be somebody who is spiritual someone who serves god someone who brings the kirbanis in those times brought the karbalas our children when they see that we have the right priorities when they see that we respect kohanim we respect the priests we respect the banaytara we respect those who know god's will more than us the result is in the push-up shot but clearly it's saying a spiritual thing as well but in the simple simple you know naturally when our children see that we respect those who are more spiritual than us they become more spiritual they desire to be more spiritual although my kids should be more from than me how have i my kids should be more dedicated than i am i'll find my kids to be more successful than me when we respect those who are greater than us we bring that greater than us into our lives we bring success blessings godliness into our lives when we understand who's who and what's what the message tells us that the amazing blessings will indeed come into our lives i want to bless you and ask you to bless me hashem should help us to develop that respect to develop that to develop that understanding that those who those who are greater than us are greater than us those who are smarter than us are smarter than us we should be able to have the respect for the judges we should be able to have the respect for the way that hashem set up the world and place certain people to be who they are and when we have that respect we become greater people hashem should help us to indeed become those greater people and that our children should indeed as well be those types of people as well thank you so much for listening have a wonderful shabbos this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.ariegoldwag.com or search on itunes ari goldwag