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Shnayim Yomi - Shoftim - Sheni - #2
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Featuring: Rabbi Nathan Escava Edmond J. Safra Congregation Brooklyn, NY Click below for today's text of Shnayim Mikra: https://shnayimyomi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/2-1.pdf ShnayimYomi.org
Categories:Torah/Tanach
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when you enter the land
you conquer the land you settle in the
land and now you say
i want to appoint a king like the
that surround me
go ahead you're allowed to appoint a
king but only
a person that god will choose either
through a prophet or through
the urim and the king has to be someone
who's born
as a jew also the king has certain laws
he's not allowed to have too many horses
because inevitably
that will direct the jewish people back
to egypt
in order to acquire more horses and i
told you
don't go back to egypt and he cannot
have too many wives
because they will sway his heart away
from god and towards idol worship
and he cannot have too much silver or
too much gold
also he has a commandment to have two to
write two copies of a set of
one for storage and one on him wherever
he goes
and he should read it all his days and
by having that extra torah with him
wherever he goes and
learning it that will prevent him from
having an exalted heart and from swaying
from the torah
and in that his kingdom
and the kingdom of his children will be
lengthened
now we know that king solomon reasoned
if the torah is telling us
why a king can have i could have many
wives and they won't sway my heart
i could have many horses and i won't let
the people go out back to egypt
i could have abundant gold and silver
and we know
that at the end of his life his wives
did sway his heart and he allowed them
and he wasn't when they worshiped idols
and we know that because he had abundant
horses
they did end up directing jews back to
egypt
it backfired on him and at the end of
his life
realized his mistake and rapin hash
friedman explains
that's why mohammed wrote the books of
mishlai the books of kohelet in the book
of shiitake
in mishlai king solomon writes
hashema you have a horse you think
that's what's going to make you win the
battle the battle comes from
we can't go and have more than horses
than necessary
in in kohelet realized his mistake in
acquiring abundant gold and silver
he writes in cohere
i acquired a lot of gold and silver and
then he says if you pursue him later
as a waste of time and in shira shireen
he writes about how we are married to
borehole
in order to be happy for being oberon
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