The Wisdom Behind Yisro’s Advice

The second part of the beginning of parsha Yisro is the advice, the good advice of Yisro. Possible says Yisro shows up the next day, he sees that busy literally taking care of the nation and Yisro tells Moshe it's not a good idea for you, it's not a good idea for the people either, right? Everybody's going to wear themselves out. Now, I understand that you want to be there for them and it's your selflessness is very commendable. But at the end of the day, there's no staying power to this type of model. So, I think what you need to do is I think you need to create a system where you're going to delegate and Yisro tells Moshe exactly how to do it and Moshe doesn't even negotiate with him. He literally does it exactly the way his father-in-law had told him to do it. If you take a look at the Ramban, this is the Ramban that we've mentioned several times over the years. The Ramban explains some of these that we went through quickly in a more nuanced way. So, the possible says that Yisro sees Moshe busy with the nation from morning to evening. And he comes to him and he tells him, "What is this all about?" He says, "What are you doing? Why are you sitting by yourself? And the entire nation is standing on top of you from the morning until the evening." And then Moshe responded, this is where the nuance comes in. He says, "I want you to understand." He says, "The reason the people are coming to me is threefold. Number one, says the Ramban, you know what that means? This is a a Ramban that he repeats several times. Every time you find the to be Hashem, to be Hashem, it means he says people have needs. They're the Ramban says people need access to someone that has a so they're coming to me, they're asking me to on their behalf. Meaning you're looking at a line of people, you want to know why people are online. I go to Twitter app, there's a line. Different people are there for different reasons. So, says some of them are here, they're coming to me there are other people. There are people that are coming but I'm a judge, I know all the so they're coming to me as being a person that knows all the laws. So, if they have an issue, I'm trying to help sort that out. That's another reason they're coming. And then finally they're coming to me to learn Torah. I'm teaching Torah. So, there are three types of people said Moshe to Yisro that are standing online. Some people are coming for some people are coming for and there are other people that are coming for Torah. So, Yisro thought for a minute. He heard what Moshe Rabbeinu said and then he comes back to later. He says, "I'm going to give you some advice. You said that there are people online that are coming for I think they should continue coming to you for Torah. You never tell one of your and I'm sorry I can't for you. So, you should be standing and if there's any message that needs to be given over to there's no question in the world this is something that you should do. The second thing that you mentioned was is that there are people that are coming to you to learn Torah. 100% you teach Torah. Next possible. This is the message of the Torah. The third thing that you mentioned is they're coming to you for Mishpat. That already there's no reason in the world you have to be suddenly a judge who's in small claims court. This is not something that you need to be busy with. The third thing, that's not something that you need to be busy with. That's not something that you need to be busy with. So, says the Ramban, Yisro told Moshe what's going on here. Moshe Rabbeinu explained in a very methodical way, there's three groups of people, they're all coming to me for different reasons. Says Yisro, I hear two of the three I think you should continue doing. It's the third one that unless it's a or it's a I don't think you need to have anything to do with and Yisro heard this and Yisro or Moshe heard this and Moshe was asking but either way the Ramban very, very beautifully goes and he explains the the in a more nuanced way in terms of what exactly the was over here between Yisro and Moshe Rabbeinu. The this is in safer the says that if you look carefully at the language of the Torah when Yisro approached Moshe for the first time it's clear that Yisro understood this as well. The possible says he saw who he saw. So, Moshe sees everything that Moshe Rabbeinu is doing for the nation. He sees everything. Meaning he got a good picture from a macro perspective of what's going on. And what did he say? What is this all about? He zoned in on one thing. HE SAW EVERYTHING. HE MEANS HE'S pointing to it a finger, right? So, he said that from all the things that I see, there's one thing that I'm not understanding 100%. Why do you have to be busy with this? What was that one thing said the it's the one thing >> [snorts] >> that he told him at the end is the thing that I don't think you Moshe need to be busy with. But said the it's cuz what did he continue and tell him? He says, "Why are you sitting by yourself? Everybody else is standing." So, said the this is he said that Moshe Rabbeinu was doing three things. One thing he was doing was he was praying. The other thing he was doing was he was teaching Torah and the third thing was he was judging. He was being a prayer said the we know has to be right? It's called the it's called what do you how do you you pray? He didn't mean he Moshe Rabbeinu needs to be he said [laughter] what about he said the and the Moshe Rabbeinu used to teach Torah. Moshe Rabbeinu used to sit and the people were sitting around him. They were both he didn't mean Torah. Said the CUZ HE SAID WHEN MOSHE RABBEINU WAS TEACHING TORAH THEY WERE ALL SITTING. It's when you walk into a where there's a that the has to sit but all the that are there but they have to be standing. That's where it's he says I think Yisro knew this already. He preempted it. He saw everything. What's the like Moshe Rabbeinu responded the way the Ramban explains it. He said he's for them, he's teaching them Torah and he's going and he's judging. HE SAID THIS ONE thing from these three things I'm not to which one? The one where you are sitting and they're standing. That's not standing. It's not cuz then they were both sitting. Where is that at? That that's where Moshe Rabbeinu was being a judge. Either way I'll said the I think you can explain even that possible already in a much more nuanced way.