Torah insights Parshas Yisro - Yisro's Seven criteria to be a Judge, Rabbi Yossi Paltiel 5783

foreign [Music] I got to prepare the material so here's a topic that I've been curious about for a very long time and today I researched it very simple and it's a good topic I think because it's not just a chat and a Hamish it's a it's a social study it's a it's an evaluation of good people if you will we all know the story that the day after you keep it in the year 2449 May should have been spent 120 days at a mountain not eating and the next morning instead of having a large breakfast he's giving you he's sitting and you're in line basically was the inventor of giving dollars it lasted exactly one day and yes they ruined it and it took about 3 000 years for the rabbit to come up and say you know what we're going back to giving dollars yesterday's not around to ruin it we're going back to giving dollars but that's what happened anybody came by and we had a question you asked Moshe would sit there and people would come along as the person said leadership which actually interprets the mean people had arguments there were several million Jews living in a camp they were tread close to each other and then arguments about the real estate and about property taxes and about who owns the border and where you can spill your sewage so they came around to make sure they began to argue and moisture Sat one by one people came everyone said without the same I should have been a poskin next and there was no hearings and there were no appeals Maisha heard the case he gave the plaque and you moved on everybody understood that if Mercury gives you a plaque first of all it's true second of all you're going to appeal you're going to look like a terrible person and you're gonna lose the appeal anyway so it was very simple judged everybody it was one judge of the entire Jewish Nation the good news and the bad news I'm actually having the judge was like you couldn't say to the judge hey you and I are buddies who went to school together remember we used to play in the playground you got to look at me with a good eye myself I spent 80 years out of Messiah was a fair judge you couldn't bribe him you couldn't finagle him and he didn't came and stood in line and they should be judging every person Jethro most should have made this father who must sees this and he says to make sure it is ridiculous he says you're going to ruin yourself and you ruin the people there's another whole day in line to hear it taste a whole day it's on the line to your case somebody should have made a sense of course of course they want me to judge their cases they don't want to trust anybody else they want me to judge their cases just get out a great story to support that position It's a Wonderful piece of hasidish History here's the story the balships as you may or may not know we're wonders especially when he was a hidden Sadiq were Wanderers they come to a place they Park themselves in the shoe they'd sleep on a bench and they had bread and water with them whatever they brought with them they needed nobody's help and they'd stick around town for like four or five six months and slowly but surely the people would get to know them they would start teaching the dictator to the little kids to the big kids to the men to the women and they would stick around for a period of time and during the period they were in town people came to see them is incredibly Fair incredibly Equitable gonna be fair and he got to the point that any time people had a conflict the maglike his business they would come to this he would hear the case and he would pass in and everybody was happy if he's talking about long enough the goyan found out about this and the goyan preferred to have a Jewish rabbi oversee a case between them and the fellow Jew then ago you should judge because they knew that if the pashant is talmud obviously your case you're always going to get a fear hearing there was never going to be favoritism and the law the law was going to be fixed as is necessary a kid said one of these name was the couple and a couple used to travel around and visit different places and he would park himself in a city he'd spend a certain amount of time and um people got to know him he got to know them he was makata people the whole idea was to get the Eden in Poland who were so broken and so poor and so ignorant to develop their appetite for Toyota that was the plan this sub couple had a habits of saying all day in all night all day my place God in front of Allah this was his Mantra like we say we want now he said this was his life he was so uh what's the word consistent about saying Summit he developed a nickname his nickname was couple shivici they call them couple shooties the guardian just called them playing he meant but GBC means that I see Hashem from me all the time so the hidden called him the guy I'm called them shavichi and it was a gentile for a big fight over some kind of business enough to go to court so the Jews says you probably want to go to a secular Court no no she means he's good for me to go he says good for me so the common database is gone to the next town to repeat the performance of the Mercado so the year tested up to this guy okay let's go to the local judge who was either Jewish or non-jewish and I'll hear the case they'll decide and the guy says to the ID in Russian he says I heard from Yiddish um there's nothing there's no case now literally he met the person but contextually if there's no chilisi Hashem there's nothing in other words you want to be judged by a judge who's who's who's who's who's who's honorable who's honest who speaks truth and and disobey she's doing Maisha is personally presiding over the the case of the Jewish people ad so everybody gets a fear hearing a Jew and I ever gets a fear here and Jethro objects yesterday says it's not realistic you say systematician abatements can't work I get it you want to give people a fair hearing but you're only one person noveltyble well Fall Apart and He suggests to set up a system of course that everybody knows that story right but yesterday doesn't just tell me that he can't be the only judge and that should set up a system of of him he says tip number one you have to consultation if Hashem doesn't want if Hashem wants you to be the only judge then you're gonna have to be the only judge Kim will allow you to set up a court system where Maisha doesn't have their every single case you'll be able to survive you'll live longer they'll live longer people are not going to be nervous wreck standing all day in a light to meet you and so on and of course Moshe can tell us the abiston and ambition degree agrees that moisture doesn't have to judge every Jew and that lasts until our generation when the devil started giving dollars now let's go back to Mission albino before you say mixed in so the first thing he tells you is but then he says to them I want you to know how to choose a judge that you should see because the entire nation men of value who hate money the same time you should have placed some of the Jewish people sorry I love him so Israel is how to choose how to Jews a court judge who's going to be honorable and Equitable and trustworthy and without biases such as an Apostles with transest English men are valid no one knows what Valor means but it's a great word um the Kim God-fearing people and she Ms people of Truth saying they bought so hate money it says so in our pasture yesterday prescribes their criteria for being a good judge the criteria being a good judge as it's written in the homish doesn't say one single word about law right Angie m is people of truth even that doesn't mean people who hate money I don't know either people hate money trust people hate money I have a problem with those people right so it says in sifried not in our pasture that actually yesterday seven indicators I want you to choose judges and he gave yesterday seven criteria you know it could be a good judge to judge Jewish people to overhear hear their cases obviously their law they have to have seven criteria okay and this is today's class today's class is an analysis of yesterday's assessment you say judgment use his opinion to be a member of Sanhedrin to be a judge in a Jewish Court to listen to people's cases and to be able to judge people with fairness you have to have seven criteria seven rules only problem is only four in our project that's definitely four so the the C3 which is the volume has a commentary from the divert from the greatest show in him and that if it says that even though in the posseck it says Ford is actually seven because the four that are written in the homage don't speak about his knowledge of law let's just speak about his character right um Angel people of Valor Kim God-fearing people Auntie Emmett people of Truth saying they both write money those are the nice characteristics in personality but you have to become so the driver therefore says that yesterday actually said three more characteristics for a total of seven there are seven criteria that are necessary for a person to be considered a judge amongst the Jewish people that's what I want to do right now is I want to tell you um what did I make this really this whole shears arriving it's not even in our badge Okay so there's some confusion and there's different opinions so I'm going to teach it to you one way and I'm gonna talk about it at length at the end of the class assuming the clock doesn't have heartlessness clocks are always Heartless by the way um I'll give you another version of it did we're going to be studying seven meters four from our Parsha and three more that I mentioned in pasius devoted and here they are I'm going through the list one more time okay in our past you have number one Angel Men of Valor number two God-fearing people number three Auntie Emma's people of Truth number four saying about people hate money number five is equivocal it's hard to place because if you count number five you can end up with eight I'm not ship they need to be men and as she says number six they have to be wise we have to be intuitive yeah number seven they need to be in the voyne they need to be the one that means maybe that they have to have the power of induction you tell them one thing and they can deduce or eat or deduce or in those from what you tell them they can determine something else and the last characteristic is you do him you do it means people that people know don't choose the guys who are hide in the back or show that nobody knows choose people that are known now I just gave you eight not seven in our past you have four Angel Men of Valor you're able to keep people who fear God and she Ms people of Truth shiny bottle hate money and then development got four more men which are translated means understanding and you do it means people who are well known people know who they are they have a reputation they've been around and because they've been around that we know their as they say it's an American politics we know their record we know how they vote we know how they judge so how do you deal with the fact that the safety says that yes you have eight my answer is that the word and the word angel in our parisha are the same so if the same you'll be down to seven only problem is number four should we translate the words in a variety of different ways and it doesn't work in all the different ways that are presented this is what's going to happen about you say I just gave you facts okay if I lost you in those facts don't wear them I am simply going to study with you which is in Toyota how a person is qualified to be a judge whether it's seven criteria or eight criteria we'll leave that for the politicians and for the experts and push it's studying with you the me days that a person needs to judge another person number one means Men of Valor what's valid what Valerie he's just Kyle a woman of aloe it's woman of Alice my wife right yeah why because if I did suggest to that it would have Valor I'll never be the end of it right you're the woman of Valor right what Valor what's Asia's I don't know what Valor means I I guess that's a good translation Valor means people who are who have guts right who are not afraid they they believe in things they stand for things and they're not afraid to stand up for they believe so the first thing yesterday should have been you want to get good judges choose people who are bold what does Rashi say what does Rashi say Rashi says people who are rich now since when is Rich characteristic that qualifies you to be a judge so now she answers because people who are wealthy will take no bribes there's no hanufa you cannot bribe them you cannot flatter them they're they're okay a rich person is so self-sufficient and so self-secure you can't bribe him he can flatter him he speaks the truth as it is now understand means a rich man it doesn't mean every rich man that you have Muslim shop who competes for 125 times high from after yoin when it says in the Posse means a rich man that he can abide Rashi means the mission name is a man of Valor a personal principle God is Not Afraid he's Rich what does it mean he's Rich you can't bribe him but what makes them rich what makes them Rich so you've heard the speech me 25 times I'm I don't have a lot of good things to say the same things over and over and over again the mission says Usher who's rich I know who's rich he's Rich right now what happens the moves in the Crown Heights and lives on Crown Street next to him who's got five times as much money as he does and he happens in a good show though so it sits in the front the whole week and they got checks so he's not so rich anymore rich is the subjective thing who's rich the person has the most money in town that's not complicated someone cops out more money the old rich guy becomes not so rich if two people come up with money he's even less Rich there is a subjectivity to it there's a subjectivity to it so the mission says is there wealth is there such a thing as a rich man that no matter who comes to town he'll still be rich is there a rich man that no matter who lives next door no matter what happens to his own personal finances he remains rich is there a way to have wealth that you can't lose is there a way to have wealth that you have you could be living you can be flanked by multi-billionaires and you're still a rich living in the middle sure just happy just like your life that's it is a person who's happy with what he has is Rich why he doesn't the other guy has so when the first yesterday says to his father has the high motion you're the rabbi and you're going to be slow and you're the number of the able State I got common sense I live in the real world there's there's like five or six differences where people are correcting five or six this yesterday and there's Aaron and there's the daughters of a bunch of people are correcting and in each case the rabbit says what's the issue that Maisha lives in the sky you're a holy man but I'm a practical man you understand that theory I understand in the world you can't you can't do this yourself and he's presenting my sharabenu with a suggestion of how to choose judges number one choose rich people what does it mean Rich a person who likes himself he's happy with what he has a person like that you cannot bribe he could be poor but if he says if what he has is enough if what he has is enough has enough he's Rich he can preside on legal cases because he can't bribe it this is rule number one the which is people who are trustworthy their word is good a person who's trustworthy means a person gives you his word he's not going to change his mind he's not going to flip flop he's not going to think about it and come back to another verdict that's called Bali of talk so it's a different definition raji's definition of I mean people who are rich Valley I've talked about people whose word is good and then there's a Taylor Slimer his helical is not here that says um means Warriors and titles how many people live at the war if you are the kind of guy who can debate Toyota and not back down you can hold your position you can you hold things you argue things you defend your position if you are sharp in you have opinions and you can defend them and you can argue them that's the first criteria for sitting on the court of law so we have three definitions of Angela right number one rich number two trustworthy and number three learn it go ahead tell me how um it doesn't say that it says Warriors you're not a fight you're not a loser you're not a fight part of fighting is losing you're not using the swords you're arguing ideas right some people don't know how to fight what do they do like me the first sign of dangerous they run and hide under the table finish Towers that's not doing that kind of fight wait other people don't know how to back down they'll they'll they'll have the teeth while their mouth but they're not going to change their minds they don't know how to fight either they can't be a judge debate them a title means people out of fight and they know how to lose they know when as I said voice they can sit in the court of law that's exactly what it means okay so in other words your point is well taken but in fact the implication is their war is that it means they know when to fight them when not to fight so that's number one rule number one to sit in the court of law you have to be Angel Rashi says that means you have to be rich unbreavable number two God fearing means god for him I'm afraid of Hashem I'm afraid of Hashem what does it mean I'm afraid of Hashem Hashem is a mean old guy right he doesn't hear well he has no teeth he doesn't taste his food when he eats it one of his eyes doesn't see color anymore and he walks with a limp and he's missing five teeth so he talks for the lisp and he's got so many grudges against so many people because they're handsome and young right that's what Amy stated yeah so you're afraid of him he's an angry old guy with a big nose and look at the side of a people because he's angry and old and catchy no that's not God and that's not yeah Davis is Young and healthy and strong and beautiful means I'm afraid of Hashem not because gonna hurt me but because I have a sense of his or I have a brother who says one of the hardest things to teach not from people is Hashem because the words being afraid of God is very disturbing to Americans so he uses the word respect means I have a real sense of Hashem and I am awed by him I take him seriously in Hamish you have a very poignant event is playing with his children's brains with his brother's brains right he's playing with them he's toys and the cat plays with a mouse he's getting them all confused he's trying to be fun of them confuse them be frighten them basically and he puts them in jail right and he wakes up in the words you know what you can go I'm Gonna Keep with the rest of you go home what does he say Kim Ani I'm afraid of God and because I'm afraid of God I cannot be excessive I cannot be brutal in my in my uh distribution of punishment I'm gonna let you all go home I'm just going to keep shimming and go to your father and come back up with the young man I I Fear God is a very big deal I Fear God not I'm afraid it's going to zap me I have a sense of his presence to be a court judge right it says in the Apostle okay the judges sit and Hashem stand and they say to him which is next week says judges are called only Kim they sit and the ABC is stands above the judges as they preside over a case if they have fear of heaven so yes it says the second requirement to be a judge to oversee Financial deals of Jewish people is that to be afraid of Hashem Not Afraid is going to hurt me I have to be responsible for the fact that if I make a mistake to Able just gonna say you cost the Jew money you costed you time because the Jew convenience because the Jew nerves you have the fear of Heaven now I think I might say which is negate to somebody in this room there was a bark at the time because the big one and a little one so the biggest on there they call themselves 99 and a half years he basically he came to his top he forgot to get off so he went around twice it was very we from leveling it's my my sister is married to his grandson yeah come here so in this biography he was on there and there's a really really crazy story that ever the meaning was that when the body reach a certain age they were drafted into the Russian army I think when they were as young as 17 now the Russian army didn't need soldiers they had plenty of soldiers but the Russian army needed control so they didn't need soldiers but they had conscription anyway they had mandatory draft anyway just about to control the country and soldiers who served it wasn't fun from Yeadon didn't do well in any army certainly not in the Russian army so they wanted to get out of it and there were 101 ways to get into illegal ways of getting all kinds of loopholes and it was called please if preserve means when you came to the city where you lived or you were called you presented yourself to the military Dutton authorities and they would look you over and decide if you could serve you not sir the custom in labavage was that simchaste the morning all the boys who reached the Asian would wait before diving by the ribena's room he'd walk out each one would approach the river and he would give that I would give different advice to each person words whether you were going to serve or not you know if he said today it meant one thing yeah yeah whether you were actually going to serve or you're going to get out of it one by one the boys would go over and then it's interesting sometimes they go show up in a different city come a little late come a little all kinds of weird kinds of council it was all ruach and a lot of Bakr many many boys served don't kid yourself but Allah got out of the draft was probably 20 years old so you're talking to early to in 1991 or something like that comes over to the dead says go to this in the city there's a year by the name this is you'll marry his daughter and he'll help you with the draft you'll marry his door and help you with the draft you thought distance was an old man it's a big question anyways he got to the train he goes to that city which I forgot the name of it he knocks the door they opens the door and he says yeah I'm coming from the Babbage the neighborhood told me I should marry your daughter and help me with the draft the guy says excuse me people he didn't hear the name said I should marry your daughter excuse me in other words he married his daughter with the draft but it became complicated what is this each Edition was older than that forget about other than this him and his wife got in a train and then what's this he sent the boy to my house by my daughter he never met her she never met him what's this anyway somehow it was arranged that when they showed up in the Bible's parents also shoved and both couples went into the liberal shop together it was five people in the room two fathers and two mothers and there was a negotiation acted as The Negotiator you send the guy to my house to marry my daughter they didn't even meet what's this for us that is who's this boy and the rebara shop said these words when he sits alone in the room he's also fearful of God that's what he said and they said mouth and broke a plate you see that's him we all need one another to say from we know that yeah to be in your own room by yourself if there's nobody around by God and you can do whatever you want and foreign whether the case is for 10 cents or the cases for a million dollars you have to take each case with all the earnestness because when you judge Hashem stand you're sitting above the Sanhedrin and there needs to be fear of Heaven that's the second criteria again brings a different shot which I find very interesting he translates they know how to make shut up means Shada means compromise I imagine that none of you have ever been in a court of law I imagine that none of you have ever been in the best in where there was a case where one guy's gonna win and one guy's gonna lose I have not too many times and it wasn't too personal but I have let me tell you the fact of life you lose the case when you walk into the court even if you win because you make enemies for life like you never saw if you have a fight with another Jew settle if I was another Gentile settle go into court even if you know for sure you're gonna win is so costly not in money but in relationships that the job of araf is not to oversee a detail but to settle it people come in the screaming edge of they hate each other they're angry at each other a landlord and a tenant a a a business partners a husband and a wife the title says job is through everything in his power not to make it into a legal case because you make it and legalization there's no compromise if a judge judges he has to say the law no matter who wins no matter who loses right there's two sides one judge is gonna be nice to the rich man in town because look bad and the other judges he'd be nice to the poor person both of those are sins a judge has to say the law the way the law is no matter who wins and who loses so the title says to a judge your job makes it entitled not happen and and this is true in American law also the best way to deal with differences is to settle you win a little you lose a little but you don't have an enemy for life you go the commander says it's one of those that you can never forget the gamada says destroyed and the Yamada answers listen to this because Jewish people insisted whenever they had an argument what's the law what's the law you come into the judge what's the law the Lord what are we arguing about 50 cents you take a quarter no what's the law everything had to be black and white legal coach of the ocean that's not the civilization people settle people make mistakes people are wrong people forget people lie and cheat but you live in the world you don't have enemies you settle and the gazelle say that the base was destroyed because people insisted and following the law to the letter what's wrong in front of the Lord to the letter the tenant says in a normal civilization people give in they compromise they forgive they forget they Overlook that's how it's supposed to be so according to this filter the definition is a judge who's God fearing and he's God fearing to the extent that he avoids the case not he judges it tearfully he does everything in the power there shouldn't be a case he fears God so much that he says to the two let's settle let's find a place where both of us can be happy and let's walk away that's the second criteria let's talk quick I have no time the first criteria is Angel Men of Valor I mean three definitions for that right rich people okay um honorable honest people trustworthy people and um you made a potato the second is we have two definitions that God fearing people who are going to judge cases carefully and God freed people to the extent that they avoid the dictator in the first place they convinced the two combatants to settle sure number three anche Ms people of Truth people of Truth people of Truth means a person whose word is good I'm going to say something which doesn't get me into so much trouble I don't know why I'm saying out there and don't even ask me why but I recently came across a Jew he's such a complicated person and I'm not here to judge and not the judge one way or another his name was Maya lanskyolansky Maya Lansky was a muffinet he was a Jewish guy was best friends with one of the most important Italians in New York city mayor Lansky was a god of never killed a person but a lot of people died because of him a lot marikovsky's miralansky made millions and millions and millions of dollars in gambling and people who know will tell you that malansky's money number one was used to destroy the Nazi party United States of America and number two it built the state of Israel those Jewish Mafia tickets spent millions of dollars into snow my Alaska was a criminal because a criminal he was he was organized crime he was Jewish Mafia but everybody knew [Music] that if my alliance he gave you his words it was as good as gold that's a fact it was a Godly effect he was at attack but if he said this is the term they shook your hand you kept your word he kept his word his word was good I'm not saying that he's called Auntie emiss well it's Maleficent cup I would tell him a week ago but on my head he's bouncing around like a billion rule that they said goyam said that mayoralansky's word was better than a hundred contractors a man of Truth like it's not a man of truth I'm just saying it maybe I'm saying it I don't even know why I'm saying it um Angie Ms people of Truth everybody knows where an honest man is an honest man an honest man an honest man honest man is not a man and some people just got it some people just have it honest people and to be a judge you need to have a tendency towards honesty your Nature has to be that you don't like to tell a lie you want to say the truth sometimes people tell the truth so I'll get the members it's a simple thing but it's a it's a very important criteria if you want to be a judge you have to look for truth in other words if you as they say legislate From the Bench one of the biggest problems in America is that a lot of our judges know what they want the plaque to be so they spin the law to serve them that's not anti-mus that's anche spin I am not the creator of the laws I Am the Only The Interpreter of the laws right in America who makes the laws the Judiciary not Biden the Congress the house representative the Senate United States our constitution allows with the creation of new laws they're called the lawmakers the two houses of congress the senators and the House Representatives this 100 Senators 425 Representatives they have a right to make law judges only interpret law a judge takes the law that the Congress gives and applies it an honorable Judge wants to know what the truth of the intent of the Constitution the intent of the Congress was a judge with an agenda is going to spin it to serve his purposes Auntie emiss means I am a person of interest I'm a judge I may practice against my own ruling but this is the law of the lab that's called Angelus the third criteria for being a judge you have to be a person who's leaning towards Ms Rashi says verse made Emma's but you're trustworthy you're reliable you just your word is good very very strange I don't understand why democrato says it but says the definition of is what's the story found the stone and he wanted to bring it to the base I make this but the stone weighed the 50 tons had no money and no connections and no people no garnished sabala came along foreign if that's how you translate anti-am is Angie Ms doesn't mean he feels all the truth that's what it means Angie Ms means people who mean it with their whole heart Andrew is not a person of truth that I don't lie my you describe is true you know how true are you this guy is that if I need to live a stone that weighs so many so many tons to the base I make this and they have no means of carrying it because I mean it with such Ms the able to turn the mouth to help me so there's two definitions of anti-mus the first definition you tell the truth the second definition is your involvement with Hashem is so real that you can call that person's avoida Amis that's the third requirement to be a judge number four people who hate money you know the old story right if you want to find the person who hates money very simply pay them you pay them enough you'll hate money too whatever you want if I guilt him and I will chop him let me saw you tell me this afternoon for enough money you can guide anything you want even a person who hates money a person who hates money means he can be very rich but he appreciates what money does to you he doesn't want money he's happy to have money but he's very very not happy to Define himself by money you know there's an old Yiddish expression that there's three things that work and they don't work I just need a little more because alcohol has to make you drunk if you're not drunk yet have some more and money makes you crazy it's not crazy yet get some more is the person who knows that you can be very wealthy but he hates the worship of the money he doesn't mind the money but he hates the preoccupation he hates the fact that it's such a big deal meaning he doesn't Define himself by his wealth to him wealth is what you do with it but the wealth itself is hateful the first fourth criteria for being a judge an oversees legalization Jewish people is a person who has if I may say it in other words a healthy relationship with money and there are very people like that in the real world when it comes to money almost everybody becomes very weird you know that I always tell people I believe just my own experience there's two types of money in this world just two types what's in my pocket and what's not in my pocket not what's mine and not mine what's in my pocket if I have your money in my pocket it's mine if I have your money and your my money in your pocket it's yours that's how the brain works now it's that ethical it's not honest it's not true but if you know anything about money that's what people think a guy raised a million dollars now has to pay his teachers right he hesitates why I got a million dollars I paid my teacher nothing left but you raised the money to pay the teachers but I got a million dollars is the person who doesn't get caught in that trap that almost everybody gets caught and that Rabbi is the fourth criteria and the uh says that they hate their own money let alone somebody else in other words they again I don't think it means they hate money they hate what money does to you so again means um they're principled right [Music] um that you can't bribe them they're trustworthy they're good they're not a fight of battle in type Janeiro Kim means they fear God in judgment or they avoid judgment because they're making compromise Auntie Emma's they tell the truth or they mean it with such an evidence that they're able to help them and saying means they they hate what money does to people these four are in our passion then you get four more in the bottom number one I'm not sure and again it's hard to figure out because the the three says seven and the part you got eight number one I'm not sure okay now there are other people who Define anashim so other people Define anashim in a different way which makes anoshim mean the same thing as Angel there's a there's another there is another another tereshlema that says means people with good reputation if you're gonna translate that's quite close to a notion so the fifth criteria is saying righteous people okay and people who have a good reputation right should be finished anyway the the next one which is really five two is means wise people say what's a wise person what's a wise person a wise person has good intuition a wise person feels he guesses correctly he intuitively knows he just knows a wise person intuitive in those true and false what's good and bad right and wrong it's a wise person okay but Hawk was only one quality to be intuitive to have a good sense of guessing after your home you have to be a maven a maven is somebody who's called the maven Government after you hear the case and you intuitively know who's right and wrong you study and you examine and you analyze you you don't allow your first sense of who's right and who's wrong to be the final criteria for your case you dig deeper and you dig deeper and you dig deeper and you the interaction Expressions you figure out one thing from the next so that you test whether your initial intuition was correct or incorrect so criteria five or six is wise people wise people are intuitive and the sixth material is Neville they don't trust their intuition they pursue it further and they see they measure to see if the intuition is correct Rashi says that is like a person who's in charge a money changer money changers right you give them 100 they give you 100 singles right but one of the jobs of money changers in the old world was to examine the quality of the coin money change of excellent coins number one that know what currency it was number two that's no it was still in use number three they had to know if it was still good it was faded so money changes were experts at currency that was part of their job so that actually says somebody you bring them currency looks it and tells you what it's worth a maven is somebody that if he's nothing nobody brings many currency he goes up to the street he goes obviously let me see your wallet he takes out your cards he tells you what it is is happy to answer a question when you ask him the maven is compulsive if nobody's asking him any questions he goes and looks for questions to answer so to be a member of the Sanhedrin you have to be a Haram which means you have to be intuitive wise and you have to be amazed in someone who tests the Integrity of his now these two criteria actually make sense right to be a Georgia the first four or five they're all nice characteristics but they're all about character and a maven is legal to be a judge on a case you have to understand the law you have to know the law and you have now to interpret the law and you also have to have a feel for the law knowing the law the standing the law interpreting that's a maven having a feel of a sense of what the law is one of the biggest issues that faces America today if that we have a constitution that was written two and a half centuries ago and our constitution is our legal code the laws of America are made based on laws of the Constitution and there are issues that we all know are terribly terribly volatile just to give you one example the argument that's been going on now for 50 years about the place of God in our civilization in our society what is the argument about everybody is quoted the same Constitution one guy has caught in the constitution of the proof that we must have God in public schools and solvent prayer et cetera et cetera the other guys according to the same Constitution and he's saying no Freedom does not allow for God to interfere what's the difference the the answer to that question is they want to know the spirit of the people who wrote the Constitution the words you can explain to anybody any way you want those people who sat in Philadelphia drank enough wine to put a cow to sleep and made our laws what were they thinking the founding fathers so one guy is saying we can't just interpret the law based on the words we have to know the spiritual based on the founding fathers and the other guy's saying no no no no the law the second is a maven a good judge means both he interprets the laws the law is written and he infers he tries to figure out what's the spirit of the law to be a judge you have to want emis if you don't want him one of the people you do that you that you punish that you pass can you have the lives of people in your hands so again means intuition maybe it means thorough analysis Rashi says means you judge a case when it comes to you or maybe somebody you have no case to go look for cases she has ahsa both means people who are expert at law very simple the technical part of the law and the spirit of the law and the last criteria and you do him means people that are well known one of the requirements for being a judge that people know who you are or to say it the language of America you have a record when they want to appoint someone to a higher Court what are the first thing they do they look at his record how does this person vote in all of his legal cases in the past and then he legislate From the Bench did he use the court as a way of getting what he wants politically or did he interpret the law based on the principle of the Constitution a good judge can give a law which is 180 degrees opposite of what he personally believes that's his job he interprets the law so if you don't know what the guy thinks you bring a guy making the Supreme Court Justice straight out of law school obviously doesn't have a lot of experience he doesn't have a lot of knowledge and did ickiness he doesn't have a reputation he's not known and when you're choosing a judge one of the things you have to do is know who he is know how he rules see if he found if if he has a reputation of being a good judge and only then he put him on the court those are seven rules [Music] you can't bribe him you know he came he's so God-fearing that'll even try to settle things out of court and to Ms his nature to look for truth he hates what money does to people including himself okay um his good intuition and avoiding him he's thorough in his analysis and then the other thing that she says and you do it means people know who you are you want to have a good judge you have to have all those seven rules seven criteria and Maisha found only three of them Maisha could not create judges that had all seven criteria he found only three which is so tragic if three thousand years ago my share then couldn't find each Ms only found who have intuition and they are well known then could not find judges who could meet all seven criteria just they gave and what am I should do whatever I should do anybody but he do he made them judges no he made them judges he said is this what we got that's what we're gonna go with he didn't say sorry nobody meets all the criteria going back to me he said we have to look for seven characteristics the most he found was three and he said yesterday the Amish that agreed with you I shouldn't judge myself he couldn't find judges who met all seven criteria and he said if this the best we got this we're gonna go with which is an unbelievable lesson there's an Optimum and ideal way to do anything right there's an Optimum and ideal way to choose leaders it's an app ideal way to choose you know the number one song makes you heard something I'm not the Mad out I can't create people I work with what I got oh actually I'm not the Mad out I can't create people I work with what I got my shoulder baby was not the mind out he can't create people he worked with what he had you still gave him seven Criterium he found three of them and he went with it now finally one last thing in one of the Taylor schlavas he being seven seven other ones I gotta go the boys are waiting downstairs Euro Anova this one we didn't have yet humility same Imam in which we had abbasa Ms he loves the truth and another one which was at an earlier list Ava sabria's he likes people and number seven Battleship a person with a good name this is another medish which also lists the seven criteria two of them are different Anova to be a judge you have to be humble and Ava sabriz if you want to judge people you can't just love God in the law you have to actually love people it's another medrish it's another list of seven and I don't know which ones he took off but it's also consistent with dsa's idea that he gave me the seven criteria of how to choose a judge and Maisha found only three of them okay that was a good class foreign