Weekly Torah Portion Shoftim Part 1 according to the Kli Yakar Deuteronomy 16:18 5776

good evening everybody we are the chose team that's Deuteronomy 17 it's 16 verse 18 just to clarify that's deuteronomy 16 verse 18 judge is an officer shall you a point in all your cities which a Shamir god gives you for your tribes and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment Charlie Steen wish I to entertain lahaa Bashar Assad mishpat said that's the part of the verse he brings so he the clear car opens by saying there's there's an inconsistency in the verse high of a llamar the shaft 20 tah they judge you right you're going to appoint judges detain lecom usual place over yourself so that they should judge you but that's not what it says is that you shall appoint these judges for yourselves so that they will judge the people so he says hi Lamar was shocked to a cop so that they will judge you Camilla Alta would have been consistent tavo bamako T Telecom it would have been right consistent and symmetrical with the thought that they are being in place to judge you Google Malcolm Mushaf to how do they lame our leash pattu so we have a problem here because also the shaftoes the word used and it would have made more sense to say the yesh metoo as a command that they will judge but the fact that it says the shaft to is more like a hoe dr. ba ream so the first thing you points out is a note savoy it's not a command it all it is it's in it information it's coming to inform you of what will be that once you appoint these people they will judge you so be or Indian who so to clarify this matter he says she passes at savoy lemme see a sheep 8 biondo limnos by yanni it really seems very clear that this verse is coming as the command to those who are in the position to appoint judges meaning it could be the City Council you know in a secular sense but it's probably the Sanhedrin where the existing Beit din is going to continue to to fill the gaps when people retire or could be the elders of the city who you know develop a city and build the city and one appoint judges but either way it's very clear to to the create car that this verse is coming as a command for those who are in the position to do the appointing and what is actually in monett ultim almanach you dhyani dining below that when you appoint judges you should make sure that they're you're putting them on condition that you're going to be judged by them as well basically the next sentence spells it out Louie aki-nee flew a filha Lizzy how a mono top that they shun you not be in a position where you're requiring to be flattered right you're going to honor you because you pointed the judge so then you'll never see a fair trial not by you not by anybody else if this judge is already crooked so blue yaki niku they won't judge they won't be they won't try to flatter even the ones who appoint them Rajesh Sharma this is what it means t-tail aha when you're pointing the judges you must appoint judges that will be fitting to judge you as well Watson aha the ninja visit the kava Holman and what protrudes what comes out as a natural consequence of hiring or pointing straight judges honest judges people that are not into flattery or taking bribes is the result is she's part 2 escola Amish pathetic they then will judge everyone favorably when I say favor lemme justly kilo yakshi me foo Gamla ha that there's no involvement of flattering flattering towards you either Cal go home there Nicola if they're not going to try to flatter those who you need to flatter right that you would normally have an inclination to flatter people who have high positions so they're certainly not going to be crooked when it comes to everyone else lacock Lamar that's why it says be chef to as a lush and hoda octavarium is just information the information is they will judge not that it's a command but that the result of bringing good judges honest judges is that the end result is that they actually will judge the people meaning to say no Marsha copy have / kappa homer that the consequence is the logical conclusion that they will not be crooked that they'll be fair and then he says no cim in hungary no nothing he wrote this world over 400 years ago and he says and I guess it applies today it Koecher came even more so this is not like in our days in our generation should call me I share see pic be yoga limnos by yawning anyone who's in a position to appoint judges barillo crave o meu though you know who he appoints his relatives he appoints people that he's familiar with people that he knows I think like in today's presidential election one of the main factors perhaps in choosing a presidential candidate is who's he going to select who were the Supreme Court is keep thinking like me or is he thinking like the other guy and well you know as people who are voting then we will of course you know we have our mattia our incarnations that's how we'll choose the President on that basis the makii will hittin up emo the finish and when this guy appoints the judge it's like he explicitly made a condition with him Alma not chikatilo that the guys owes him and is going to flatter him and you know go his direction no see that's how they did it back then 400 years ago it's like no different or even worse the name shock means that and what comes out from this shegaon pola I'm so if they're going to flatter or they're going to appease or hold favourably the people that appoint them how much more so are they easily swayed by the people of feeling real help him even people that are not relatives people are distant in in familiarity Louis too pathetic they won't judge them favorably into the opposite he had valiant sorry la Hache was called Athenian because what does the judge need to do he needs to be fair he needs to be equal in every aspect and every respect in other words if one guy commits a crime know what color race or religion right he's not guilty anymore than someone who is a you know you who he might be biased against no biases whatsoever sure a young girl oh so that the people who are being judged don't say to this judge Edna passata kakakakaka Mitrovica all of you there huh ola benier @ huh yesterday i sat in the courtroom and I saw the same crime ok and you yesterday poskan right you gave that a ruling because this guy was either your relative or you knew him where he came from the same city did or it was the same affiliation of some other level using your Boy Scout Troop and you judged one way back shot and now i cant me shall never be thinset cuz then and now you're changing the whole story because of what because of the familiarity because of the religion because of the color and that's no good nothing you had a question or a point of the face even after so much junk about whether it's a democrat or republican president they have like my appointment so they best hope your that is so to avoid constant pressure so that they have make it supposedly one that's going to be more independent could be every bad life doesn't work that way doesn't meet Ronnie retrying the first person that is I think what he's saying it's much deeper than that when of course you have the point judges but he did see bullying is on the type of judges fair judges who are not going to be biased people who are Roy fitting to be judges not people who you know are crooked okay who are going to take a bride we heard want to mock your pani we're going to show favor to somebody okay people have a proven track record for being fair knowing the law and applying it and not showing any kind of favor or willing to take bribes I think that's what the Commandant here is going to tlie got the commandment is to appoint fair judges it's not enough to appoint judges but to appoint fair judges that's what the second part the shakhter goes on must eat a macaque he's starting to t-pain Lacock in the very beginning of the worst he's being used that you should appoint judges who will not right who will be able to judge you think properly fairly not because you hold the keys to you know the kingdom over their head I appointed you you owe me as we know I mean that's what happens every so or James Comey sort of like we thought that how many other understand the check and balances to ensure that another suggested Savoy selected Clea car set 10 years ago people weren't this char so how are you ensuring that we're going to get it right is that I don't know if you find an adverse okay it could be later on but I don't I don't think that it's going to be so easy you know but we'll see on that there are other parts of this commandment as we'll see when it says right you shall not pervert judgment you should not take notice of someone's presence you should not take a bribe so now you have Commandments now on the judges that hopefully you set in motion and point to them as proper judges to start so at least in the next verse you have Commandments on the judges but the first commandment is on us not just to appoint judges as one would think but it's very deep that we be if we are in the position to appoint judges like one of the seven elders of the city or were part of an existing based in that has to choose another member that we should try to choose the best candidate meaning the most honest of course he is to be knowledgeable but knowledgeable is not enough because I hear stories about you know and I don't believe them but that there are judges on on the tape drives so right I'm very naive but at least if we were in the position to anoint always happen whether how peril well we're talking about what's in the Jewish great system so i don't know how prevalent is but there are stories so you wondered did this guy you really get it right I mean he's right though right and yet he was wrong in the end and then he claims that the the judge knew somebody you know so so the clear car continues I'll Derek rajaraman is gay slur flourish in a way of hints there is to explain should we call Malcolm Shannon mahahm madhab you were showing the clear cars very consistent usually says harm is either referring to the Arab Rob the mixed multitude or the routine the inferior of the inferior of the Jewish people the lowliest and here he says the word harm which appears in our verse is referring to evil people commercial pairs Rashi Papa's Luke rashi explains over there in Deuteronomy 11 verse 1 the hija commit onan him that the people were complaining if you look over there Rashi says this is talking about the Arab Rob were the most inferior and hazael st. pirkei avos keshubhai lady Nemo Neal upon F ah when both litigant rather they call the plaintiff the litigants are standing before you they're both considered evil yet a nap after a shower you have to consider both of them guilty you cannot think okay this guy he's being sued right by this poor fellow he's in a tie and it talks or a big you know very expensive suit nice glasses nice watch that he's innocent okay he's just as guilty whatever right you just have to look at them as equally guilty until all the facts are laid out on the table as opposed to thinking one of them's innocent right away okay they're both is guilty no but there negro in other words you're not saying once more guilty than the other either okay so until you get all the facts you don't think that one of them is in a sense they're both considered evil in your eyes therefore it says the shock to Assam and they will judge the people member harm is a code word for evil people kiba sha sha mishra you bein FFG char ha because at the moment of judgment or as you're judging them before the final verdict or until they accept it they will be in your eyes as if out like all other people are guilty they're guilty to a share her a showing of honey ban which some I'm not miss Pat pathetic I might skip the line I share her ishihara show him Mohan in b'ham mikhoonam that's like a nickname as if all right as if they are we saw him as the harm implies I'm not mish Podsednik therefore you must do righteous judgment meaning after Hamish pot you'd hop a parish boot let's ethic what happens is that the f you gave the sentence right your sentence this guy owes him where they split it whatever it is that this is there's no more evil but its righteousness you may never catch a 'd came to Chicago Ill AMSF in and now in your eyes they're both righteous even if you said one of them is guilty correct which in your mind in my mind we would think that they're evil if they're guilty but no they accepted the judgment he's going to pay up he's willing to pay up they're both innocent to both righteous they walked out of your court righteous you said it has the righteous but righteousness has been served they say like any wrong that was corrected that's right like a newborn baby doll rock hair alternatively show youth team Bashar to entertain lecom so it says right officers and judges judges and officers you shall point a point right to shoot at macarthur fila that you as a judge if you're ever going to judge anybody you have to be clean right you have to be sin free who are you to even give review grid proof or tell this person he's guilty if you yourself are not clean so you have to as they say ornament yourself first with cleanliness you know free of sin the shaft to sr and only afterwards then you're able to judge the people that's why it says right t-pain lakad then afterwards judge the people the cachet zoo auto then you're able to and clean as we say annoyed ornamental others he called The Young and the mouth Kimmy name of Mona Dina Dina loved ayana who in ba ba ba SI looga more over there says any judge that takes money out of someone else's possession but say in the wrong with wrong sock right he it's not a preacher judgment he he's guilty of stealing he says this person owes this person money in the end so he's guilty so any judge that removes money from somebody else and in an inner Court of in a judgment and this is talking about when he does it not properly it's not it he's not a true judge so that's how he ends off by explaining this idea of that you should automate yourself first ie you should be clean of sin and personally you have to know the laws right put the ornaments on yourself first get yourself cleaned up and ready to give judgment because if you're dirty number one you're not going to have you not to be able to give property