Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Shoftim 5780

welcome to this week's torah lesson this week's torah portion is pasha shaiftim the question of the week is what is the best way to develop a healthy family and community so in this week's torah portion pasha shrift him the torah begins and says judges and officers you should establish by all your gates so to ever ask the question what does it mean by all your gates and if you give a look in the rambam that quotes this verse and speaks about establishing safety in judges so the random writes you should establish judges in every single medina in every single country in every single province but where was the greatest safe team they sat in the basement and that was called the sanhedrin the great large sanhedrin that consisted of 71 judges so based on this river asked even more so what does it mean because the judges sat in the base of migdos so the rubber explains from here you see that the main sun head room where they sit yes they sat in the base of english that was called the saint hedrick daryl of 71 judges but their impact was supposed to be so even though they were the judges and they sat in the base of mikdash but they sat there and remained in they had no impact on the people that's they didn't fulfill their mission their mission is they should reach because what does it mean sha request explains two insights insight number one is sharreca means the gates we all have seven personal gates how we interact with the world for example we have two ears where we listen to things that going on in the world we have two eyes that we see things that's just going on in the world we have two nostrils where we intake smell of the world and then we have our mouth those are the seven gates so with the terrorist telling us that you know those rules you know those laws that the torah gave us that the sanhedrin teach us all the way back in the base of ming dos in the base of ming dos it the goal is not that you remain in the basement it should impact us on every one of our gates that we interact with the world trevor explains even further not only our personal gaits of our ears our eyes our nostrils and our mouth but what is a shower so if you think about it every single person that lives in a city a city is a city and we know a city spiritually is a place for god it's a hashem then there's something which is called a sudden a field what's the field the field is a place of work so a place of work already that's neutral territory you can do things to elevate it for example you go out to plant and you can realize everything you're planting is thanks to the blessings of hashem or god forbid you can think of it's my own power that's causing my success so therefore the torah tells us because you know those gates that you use to leave the city to go out to the field when you go out from those sarah you should have in mind and you should not forget the teaching of the sanhedrin so when you're leaving the gates you take along the teachings and that you bring into the field that you're going into so the goal of the all the powerful teaching of the sanhedrin that takes place in the bay to make the russia is that when we go out to the world we go out to the southern we pass those gates when we leave our we were connected to hashem we leave to our work zone we should remember everything that we're taught in the base amigdos so based on this rebbe explains how can we have develop healthy families and communities is that all the powerful teachings that we learn that were come from the beit hamikdash from sanhedria the goal is not it should be abstract teaching we should bring it practically in our lives the seven gates that we interact with the world our ears our eyes our nostrils and our mouth and when we go out to the world to deal with the world we leave the shark we go out to the sadha we should take with us the teachings to in everything that we do and this way we'll develop healthy families healthy communities and will bring the light of hashem to the whole world thanks so much for joining us for our weekly tour lesson this week's torah lesson is dedicated to the memory of barak minari labe yosef and rocha baslipa may their souls be elevated by the torah we're studying in their memory thanks again for joining us for our weekly torah lesson for more information please see our website swf.org have a great and blessed week and god should help us we should bring the teachings of the bass mikdas to the whole world