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Torah insights Parshas Yisro - Yisro's Seven criteria to be a Judge, Rabbi Yossi Paltiel 5783
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Yisro Yisro’s Seven criteria to be a judge. Yisro’s seven criteria for being a judge, aren’t all listed explicitly here (in our Parsha); we need the help of the Sifri in Devarim and the commentaries there to complete the list (and it gets complicated). This class includes various difficulties (and opinions) in identifying the seven groups, and we attempt to explain each one of them. To donate or for dedications to continue the holy work לנדבות והקדשות להמשיך את עבודת הקודש https://square.link/u/czg46iBz
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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
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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
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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
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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
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