Doctrine of Man or the Kingdom of Heaven? Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] good evening everybody welcome back to the year but I baked Madras and we want to welcome you all home to Tora that's right home to Tora this week's parsha is parshat chef team we are in Deuteronomy chapter 16 verse 18 now I want to let you know we're going to be dealing some very juicy may be controversial topics in the latter part of this class and so hang in there I want to give an introduction I think that the very first piece that the clear car uses to discuss Shoaff team gives you like a really nice flavor okay so we want to welcome you home home to Torah meaning this is a whole new way of thinking okay so for those who know a little bit about Torah we're talking about getting a feel flavor for the the Hebrew and the depth of Jewish not just life Jewish thought let's say even Jewish idealism whether utopian society should be like if only we had honest judges if we had a not corrupt society right an uncorruptible society Halawa if only it would be so let's take a moment right now to pray let's pray that we all elevate ourselves to a higher level we can change the whole world and my chef would be here and the Sanhedrin would be reestablished all the Jews would come home the temple would be rebuilt and all the good stuff to come that comes along with the coming of the Messiah so let's start to elevate ourselves by understanding what this verse means it starts out by telling us in invention this is chapter 16 verse 18 you're supposed to appoint judges okay so shove team the sheltering t-tail aha judges and officers these are the enforcers they're good you need to appoint them over yourself now what I'm going to do is I'm gonna read to you the conclusion of the clea car you're supposed to point them over yourself to the point that you're not expecting them to show you any favor what happens in society that we know of that those who are in charge of or have the ability to appoint or select candidates for this high office let's say the Supreme Court we all know in America the president has that position but if you have a position where you're in charge of appointing a judge what happens in most cases is there is an unspoken and well-known let's say secret handshake between you and the candidate that if you're ever in trouble he is going to come to your aid which means corruption right big neon signs corruption but it's unspoken so there's no corrupt there's no outright corruption but it's obvious obviously corrupt so you appoint these judges it says t-tail aha you shall place them over yourself that's gonna be one idea and then the verse goes on it says the coach Iraq I share Chemeketa note in LA ha ha ha the shaft OS Hamish Podsednik so you're gonna you're gonna point them in all your city gates and all your settlements your tribal areas that the Lord thank God we're all Hashem has given us and they're gonna govern the people they're gonna judge the people ok the shaft 2s on what is the word harm mean to you guys ha means always consistent to Cle a car it's the wicked so if we notice the word the shaft to is a not a command form it's it's a ho dot Vereen it's explaining a fact so basically what the clea cars leading into that if you appoint proper judges who aren't even going to show you favor because they're honest and they're your char they're straight they're not corruptible then for sure they are going to what they're meant to judge everyone else fairly what else do we know perky a vote when you're the judge you have to look at everybody be through both litigants as if they're both guilty we're still holding by the principle that you're innocent until proven guilty there's no question but in terms of the judge how here's the look just because you come and you make the claim that someone stole from you and you're dressed nicely and you have a tie right you came in a nice car and you have a job and the guy who you're claiming stole from you may even have a record he may have some past experiences that don't look good on his resume you as a judge cannot determine based on what you see at that moment just the looks you need to hear the evidence and just because someone's making a claim I hate to tell you guys just because someone's making a claim doesn't mean that he's in the right okay there are plenty of people that make claims that are false I'm not bringing this as news to you there's a lot of fake news out there you heard that before so with and then at the end after the fact that even though you as the judge view them both in your mind's eye as guilty until they both accept the verdict once they both accept the verdict Misch Podsednik then they're both considered sod the game doesn't matter if one guy you say you have to pay him 500 bucks or whatever it is and you tell him he's guilty of stealing and when he gives over that money he does Trula he has cleaned up his act it's mishpat said they okay with that brief introduction and the way I just read it we will see how the clear car brings all this about beginning of shell TV show 13 lahar as the verse says and at the end the shaft Wissam mishpat Zedeck you know what the clear car says hi little O'Meara you know what it should have said it should have been consistent if you're going to say the shaft to Assam at the end but T tain look on the beginning there should be a consistency so read it like this it should have been written that you're gonna point these judges over yourself so they will judge you but it doesn't say so they shall judge you it says so they shall judge the people and the next thing he says is Holly Laila Muammar the yesh / - yes but - that's command for him that they shall judge but it's not a command for him it's a hold of re-emits just informing you that as a result of you appointing them they will judge the people so that is clearly issues that have to be worked out so he says Bureau Indian who the actual clarification of the matter is as follows that this pasta Sherpa Suzette Sid would let me see a CPEC viado limnos d'ya mean that this verse is actually the command to the committee - whoever is responsible for appointing the candidates as judges xie xie Monello Tom almanach ayuda Yanni love that when you appoint that judge you're appointed on condition that he will judge you fairly Bologna Connie through a few loser I'm a mono some and he will not let's say show favor to the person who appointed him you understand in America for example and I don't mean to pick one Americans probably true in most countries it's probably more true in other countries than in America because it's somewhat somewhat of a democracy right but let's take examples of people in the news right the Clintons it been said it's been said not just you know allegations here nobody's I'm just telling you what's been said that there's two laws they can commit the same crimes that other people commit and yet they're they're no good they don't go to jail you follow what I'm saying because they've appointed many judges or they have many judges in their pockets or they have met I'm just using this example we don't know what's true and what's not true we're just using that as a possible example for what we've heard right once you're in the news your public cannon fodder as they say so that's a that's an example and that's why it says T tain look ah you should place on you you should place for yourself I'll at Smith huh on you you have to be so has the word not just innocent but you sure aren't straight you have to be assured you're gonna point this guy without the stipulation this kind of guy is not going to take bribes and he's not going to show you favor that's the kind of judge you want to appoint the NIM shocked busy but cava Homeric overcome is one of the thirteen harmony legal principles that we learn things from the Torah what comes out in this is a let's say a logical conclusion she is referred to as kool Hamish Podsednik if you can appoint people that are not going to become corruptible for your sake then for sure for people that they yeah they're gonna be straight with everyone else just as well in law yakiniku gamla La Cava Camilla : if they're not going to fall into the category of being flattered on your account meaning showing you favor then how much more so they're not going to show anybody else favor right they owe you and they're not gonna pay back therefore it says the shafa - meaning they will George lotion Honda octavarium it's a fact it's not a command and we learned this as a kava Homer a vadai kava Homan now this is where the clear car begins to give a little bit of what we call rebuke we love rebuke right especially in L write the month of Vitruvius a little bit buek so he says look come in hugged or a No whatever this ideal idealistic situation is unfortunately many people in our society in our generation and this was written 400 years ago do not follow shikou me I should call me a chef so I'll take the Adelie manos de Yanni he claims that anyone or Maitland it could be most people there's a lot of people like this who have the ability they're in position to appoint judges Boehner look Roy though Oh Mia you are new you though he's either going to appoint a relative or someone he knows doumeki Liu hidden ah emo both Irish almond Aceh Akane Flo it's so similar it's as if he made a condition with him like you know when you wink your eye the guy knows what you're talking about it's almost understood and conditioned when he appointed him it's as if that was even spoken out even though it wasn't that he was appointing him to show him favor you heard of such a thing in Mexico I am the same Oh seen and that's what they do in his generation the name shock means that what's the result what results from appointing corruptible and corrupted judges chigan cola I'm a few liberal I came well you two pathetic then the whole people even those who were not related who don't know the judge who don't write everyone will not be judged properly nobody will be judged properly he had died inside la Hache was colored inin the judge has to be fair and straight and even-handed with all of his rulings and then he gives an example so people should not say this is not what you want to do this is not what what you want to have it as an outcome of having a judge in office shallow young ruler people would not in order so the people will not say to this judge at more pisaq tacacá catholic road car Oh Lemieux Adela Ola been here at car you know you're sitting in court and many people can sit in court a lot at least in America they have open courts right I don't know in other countries maybe their kangaroo courts maybe they're private but in in most court you can be a you get a visitor pass you can watch and so you're watching and you say I've been sitting here for a few days watching this judge whenever somebody of his ethnic you know group comes or one of his relatives come he passed him such and such a certain way but when someone who's not from his city or not from his group or not from his you know family come he probably he postions he he determines a different Alaka and then a different verdict so that's what we don't want happening you did the judge has to be even-handed he has to be a Sharan straight all the way through so I'll just read the word so people don't say yesterday you gave this verdict to your relative or to someone you knew what's the person of your city the akshatha Tom Hashanah bidden that but today you change the the verdict to a totally different a different verdict and that's called corruption well Derek Herrera is a sloth Irish now in a way of the hint we can explain it even further that every place the word arm is spoken about should become a commission mr harm me da bearberry shyam whenever the word harm is used and if you want you can go i believe its numbers 11 verse 1 the i he harm commit ona name the word madonna name here is complainers okay so the people were as complainers who are the people Rashi tells us right away the word harm is used reference only to the wicked in case we a few examples but the clear car goes off many times to explain that the word harm is talking about what we refer to as the era of wrath the air of Wrath are the mixed multitude so cuz I'll tell us and we can see it in perky out though chapter one number eight so you can already turn the page on your source sheet it says you'd have been to buy the shoe and been shot Aquila mayhem so what did you have been shocked say don't make yourself like a lawyer I'll toss wats macaca or okay add irony you don't need to either be a prosecutor or a defender when you're the judge shubao lady nemo deem the Faneca when certainly don't be a defense attorney for the litigants when the litigants are standing in front of you you bein eka Koresh I am at least in your eyes you're looking at both of them evenly equally as guilty who cushion if Tory mell Faneca but when they're released from you they accepted your judgment you bein a is a you're gonna look at them both as innocent both as innocent because Shakib will a method in when they both have accepted the judgment obviously if one did not accept the judgment you're not gonna look too favorably upon him and he will still be considered a Russia in your eyes so back into the clear car Kiba shot a mish pot you bein efficacy Aram so I skip something therefore it says the shaft to a song you will judge the people at the time of the judgment they will be in your eyes like all the other people which we said is evil I share her shrine the Kooning them the word meconium is like a nickname known as another name for I'm Nam mishpat said they therefore when we say at the very end the last two words of that verse that it's a mish pathetic that it's a righteous judgment we're talking about after the judgment akash mishpat atop a hurry we shoot 'let's Zedeck after this judgment turned those two evil people into righteous people because they accepted before the judgment the verdict was given you're looking at them both as guilty obviously one is more guilty than the other but you know it doesn't matter at the end they're both considered righteous cube a necklace could tsadikim cuz she blew their Kisha Cobb Lou he blew Lam acid in there they should be in your eyes as siddiq aim once they accept the dead and I just want to read the last verse because this is also very interesting and then we'll go to part 2 devar Kara the show Steve a shelter titi laka as the verse said judges and officers you shall place upon yourself so guess what if you're gonna be a judge you can't have a record you can't have been in court and have been shown to be guilty and owed money and paint it out meaning if you ever court the court it better be as a witness or proven totally false accusations and innocent how do we know because of these words listen to how he pretty he says a cush coach at atomic a tequila you want to fix yourself and adorn yourself right you're going to be a judge so you have to have a pristine image about yourself and only then Schaaf to Assam only then can you as the verse says judge the people what does it mean to judge the people the cached gelato that means judging others so begins by saying shove team t-tail aha make yourself basically into a judge you have to be pristine you have to have first worked on your character and only then can you meet out I mean I I watched some of these shows they have shows on TV with judges and they're so kind some of them are very kind some of them are quite brutal you know giving a straight-up talk and and rebuke but if these guys are going to be guilty of anything in their own life how can they get review how can they possibly try to tell something how to straighten their life out when their life either was in ruins or is in ruins so the conclusion here is any judge who was ever guilty as a guilty as a litigant once and had to pay a fine because of his guilt he is not to be put in this position he should be clean as a judge okay so now we're going to go to part two and then I believe you can find in chapter 17 verse 11 and I mentioned the very beginning there's gonna be somewhat controversial because I know some of the people in my audience okay I know some of the people listen to these she read I had Dibble Dan dabbled in other religions and the truth be told anybody who's about Trueba anybody who really is a searcher spiritual searcher we're into like you know I want to know what God has to say I'm not interest what man has to say there's a lot of people who gave up one man-made doctrine none of those to my live audience that doesn't even you guys just you just got you guys bought the program all the way no questions now you have to question everything right rev North Weinberg taught us if you Aaron if you were born in Ramallah you'd probably follow Arafat if you were born in Iran you would follow Colome me if you were born in Lebanon you'd follow nasrallah and if you were boarded mastery came out against okay that's news today and if you were born in there Shireen you'd follow this Rebbe guess what Rosh Yeshiva Rebbe North Weinberg told us it's a choice you have to choose just because you're born Jewish doesn't mean you know you got to make a decision you have to want it right you want to live by this this lifestyle you have to make a choice don't just follow blindly so many people have gone through this phase where they say you know what I'm tired of man-made doctrine and I couldn't back that I couldn't disagree anymore of course man-made doctrine is by its by its us the notion is it means corruption of course it's corrupt it's man-made it's man-made doctrine right people are tired of following false fake Gospels right they want the truth so they say I'm only gonna find out what the Bible says right that's fine but you have to have the oral torah so right away if you read this verse and I think I want to read it in context because I want to read the verse before a few verses before we said chapter 17 verse 18 first eleven but if let's say we go to number eight so we'll start it chapter 17 in Deuteronomy verse eight you're living in a utopian society meaning you're living in Eretz Israel you have the same Hedren you have your city you have your your court in your city you have your court in your tribal area so you have like a series of courts right if there's ever a doubt like in America you go to you can take it to a higher court but what what constitutes a doubt so obviously if we're talking about a Jewish society living a Jewish lifestyle so what kind of doubts are gonna come up so let's see in in English we'll start if a matter of judgment will be hidden from you keep a lame in Kedah Borla mishpokhe meaning it's not clear it's not obvious okay whatever that means between what baned amla Dom being in lived in bei Nagaland Nega you can look at Rashi explains what all these things could be okay but we're gonna get to the last part matters of dispute in your cities dear very boys Bashara huh so what are you supposed to do you're supposed to get up the comte of I'll leave to Ella Macomb it doesn't say sit in your bed and meditate and the Word of God is going to come to you it doesn't say that does it we live in a society everyone has to agree so you have this revelation ah I know what God wants no tough luck it doesn't work like that it says oh and now you can google it okay get up the counter Aleta go up to the Macomb which Hashem has chosen Hashem your God has chosen then verse 9 who bought the ellic oweneen where go to the cony me who the conan the guys that sit and learn all day and live the eve who are the Laveen the guys who sit and learn all day you know the priest well hash show faith I share yeah be yummy my Haim and you're going to the judge you will be in those days and you will inquire with the Rasta and you're gonna tell the he do look hard they're gonna tell you these human beings they are flesh and blood they're qualified they're highly qualified judges okay they're going to tell you what to do that's a dollar Hamish pot and then 10 we're not even 11:00 yet I guess you anybody who says I only only care about the Word of God and I'm not interested in the doctor a man is gonna have a problem with this but we're gonna see that this is the doctrine of God because we're reading it from the Bible we're reading it's God's own words okay so number 10 you shall do according to the word that they tell you not your dream not your prophetic vision not what you think correct I read in Hebrew a la cita LP hot devar according to the matter the word I share you give do laqad that they're going to tell you and where they tell you to you from in hamako Maheu from that very place I show you've car Shem that God had chosen fish I'm Martha Lysaght and guess what you have to do you must guard to do Cocola share your ruca you've to guard you have to make sure you're very careful to do exactly what they teach you okay so that means you have to readjust that definition of what it means the throwing out the doctrine of man the doctrine of man are taking only the doctrine of God this is the doctrine of God but it is very clear what it is you have to go to them in Jerusalem right that's the place God chose or was it somewhere in Utah or I don't know what's it called Italy or like you know it's Jerusalem right everyone agreeing with me that's Jerusalem okay just making sure and we're talking about the highest place the highest court which is the Sanhedrin now we're at our verse according to the teaching that they teach you and according to the judgment they say to you shall you do and we said verse 11 I'll be a Torah according to doctora guys you got it home to Torah right according to the Torah which they taught you which they teach you all a mishmash and the statutes a share your ruca which it says which they say to you they're not showing you in black and white remember because it's a doubt if it's black and white and that's how they interpret it the majority and Sanhedrin you have to go what they say okay according to what they explain to you what it means so any doubts you have do you come to your line you come you come to the highest group of Rabbis and you listen and you do exactly what they tell you and then this is the fun part Lotus or min ha devar I share your Daedelus ah now says you're not supposed to veer off you're not supposed to turn away you're not supposed to deviate from the word okay that's the word that's the word the var means word which they say to you and then these are the two words that are going to floor us all to the right or to the left now what does that mean so let's see what Rashi has to say because he's gonna quote Rashi the clear card is gonna immediately quit Rashi well what we do let's see I have to find it myself and Rashi even if the judge tells you that right is left and that left is right you have to follow what they say now what does that mean to you and me I think that means he's telling you something that's not true as far as I know left is left and right is right but he's telling me something that I personally perceive as false yet the Torah is telling me according to Rashi I must follow the error of these rabbis this is what is the problem with all following the doctor in the van man can be fallible God is never failable right people have studied other religions practice other religions but involved and then they finally give up and they come home to Torah because they know this is the real deal and then they come to this verse you're supposed to follow the rabbi's even if they're wrong and go I started a whole new life I'm on the way the good way the straight way the godly way the holy way and now they're telling me that they go up to the saint Hedren and I'm sure they're telling me the wrong thing and now there's a the Saint Claude appealing right you could have a discussion with them but in the end what they tell you you have to do now that means if they told you that left is right and right is left that we're going to find out actually becomes reality nope ok it becomes reality and it says even if he tells you what's right is right what's that left is left of course you have to follow them either way you have to follow them but it begins by telling you if they tell you what you Siva's wrong you still to follow them now without going into this whole idea of what a lucky and mom ray is okay a rebellious elder you could read it for yourself okay we read all about the rebellious elder he's continuing to teach against the saint engine the majority we go by the majority of this group called the Sanhedrin now if you want to turn this off at this point I get it but I'm gonna beg you hang in there okay cuz we're gonna go through the clea cars thought process he's going to explain it like nobody else has explained this so we read the Rashi fine so now going back to the clear car he says like this he starts out of course parish Rashi even if they say to you about the right that it's left and the left is right you have to listen to them how much more so if they tell you what you do perceive as correct so he says now let's examine this nearer should dictate that if we really examine this carefully the verse says first of all the I'll tell you what the verse does not saying it doesn't say don't turn the actual word turn to soar don't vary don't deviate from the right of the left it doesn't say that that's where the right to the left should have been in our verse don't veer right or left from the word that they tell you no it says don't deviate from the word that they tell you to either the right or the left okay now in the Hebrew so basically if it would have said Lotus or Yummie no small that's what the clear card saying then it would make sense don't go don't go don't physically don't it mentally don't in a certain way go right or left from whatever they're telling you but it doesn't say that it says don't vary eight from the word that they're telling you right or left it's it's it's not in a yeah let me use the the commentary here because his he could explain it better than I can okay and he's quoting the clear car okay this is this is a Rashi commentary from art scroll and in the very bottom their comments he says alternatively we would have expected the verse to say you shall not turn right or left from the word they tell you but that word they tell you right or left so you can tell them that the right or left is going on the word it's not going on the word turning it's going on the word word therefore it implies that right or left is what they're actually telling you and that you have to listen to them no matter what they say now that's incredible you must listen to every word that they say whether you agree with it or not whether you think in your head this is reality or not okay so am i I'm an agreement that this would seem very controversial for many of us who've had yeah go ahead when Devin was there my mother not on the standard way absolutely then it's called an appeal at the end of the day correct but listen you're gonna have 70 people okay so the 71 so every argument is gonna be heard there's gonna be an argument I mean you're not alone now you can approach one of the judges and say can you please present this argument if you agree with me and his job will be convinced 36 or 35 other people to agree with him if he can't the end result is he's the judgment is based on the majority the majority and that's it so that's going to be the conclusion if we're talking about a severe sin like in other words they tell the people this is what it is and there is a severe effect on society that they actually admit at some point they were wrong the Torah actually says they have to bring a Corbin okay how many times in history is that ever happened I don't think so so we're talking about there's already in place if they make a mistake but in the meantime record so listen you have to listen to them God actually says listen to them even if you perceive them being wrong and if it proves them wrong you're not in and you're not guilty of anything they bring a Corbin they're taking responsibility for the mistake but what are we talking about a severe mistake okay then you would bring that Corbett so the Torah God even understands that it's possible but he gave the Torah from heaven to man okay but we're not going in that direction right now maybe we are let's continue with this it's very interesting Gomorrah that he brings down but I'm not there yet I'm jumping ahead of myself and he right away says from the fact that it says right or left after the words which they tell you which they tell you right left means they told you right or left and that's what you're supposed to listen to them I think it's very clear now if the words don't turn right or left the word don't turn and then you had right or left immediately it wouldn't mean the same thing from the word they tell you right or left as to what they telling you is right or left that you have to listen so we hear from this what he's about to tell us ready okapi she could althought piece she could see hair net even though according to and I'm going to add the word absolute truth there's a thing called absolute truth the absolute truth is neither right nor left it's some other direction aside from whatever they tell you is right or left in other words they're telling you something that seems to be wrong you have to listen to them and the reason for this many many of the rabbi's have been pondering and questioning and they many of them give reasons he this is all the clea car many of them had given reason but it seems like just repeating each other no he's claiming that nobody really thought deeply about this but I have and I'm gonna tell you what I think so hang in there he says look see how a Mets right away according to the absolute truth I have it okay listen up ain I Nero assume Kush even tougher I don't have a problem at all with what the Torah says and what the rabbi's explain because we have the Gemara in hagigah now we all know if anybody's familiar with a little bit of Tom lute a little bit of Jewish life there's as they say there's two rabbis there's three opinions right all of a sudden you're being bombarded and and what are you gonna say when you hear all these ian's what would one say well what's the point of learning I'll never get it I don't get it they don't even get it right if they have all these different opinions then what's the point of learning so listen to the Gemara should we open the Gemara right away yeah okay you find it on 3b now this verse is quite interesting I want to tell you that's not the part I want to do but I want to introduce you to this piece of Gomorrah with the verse the verse can be found in Ecclesiastes chapter 12 verse 11 where it actually describes the words of the rabbis hmmm but this is Ecclesiastes King Solomon very wise person maybe the wisest who ever lived Ddraig ha ha Meem the words of the sages are kick Darby note now what is it Darvin note it's like if you were ever so the Cowboys they have these little Spurs on the bottom of their heels and they can direct the horse where if you have a cow and you want the cow to go straight you have this maybe it's barbed wire at the end whatever it's very spiky spoky stick prod a prod very good today they have electric prods yeah but in the old days it was sharp and meaningful ok so the words of the rabbis are like prods and they're like nails that are well fastened hukum muss muss me wrote the 2 e and then it says die like us who thought they're like gather their collections of gatherings of their of these rabbis but a guess how this verse ends nitnem a row a cot they all come everything we just mentioned all comes from one shepherd so what does that mean so let's just go through the verse real quick cuz I want to get to the crux of the matter the first question the GU more asked why are the matters of Torah compared to this pride so it tells you just as the the pride directs the cow to the right place where she can dig right with the the thing on her back because what's that going to do it's gonna bring sustenance of life to the world in other words things are gonna grow if she's able to dig a pharaoh so two what are the words of Torah they direct the us they give us it's a manual for life for growth right it's going to help us study them and it's going to direct us away from the paths of death to the paths of life just like a farmer is making these Pharaohs so they can plant a seed that's the first idea here ah but you have to understand if you ever learned good morning good morning is very honest there's a lot of integrity if don't pull a fast one over me if that's so let's think this through isn't a goat a Prada very movable object you're telling me that the Torah is very flexible that the Torah is like a movable object is that what you're saying ah don't say that because look at the next word it says they're like nails what are nails nails are something that goes into the wall and stays there hopefully if you do a good enough job and it went in far enough right you don't put something too heavy on it but the idea is that the nail goes in and it's permanent ah but what's thinking we're gonna say now right Jewish integrity but doesn't the nail diminish right if you have a piece of wood you knock the nail in you you're missing some wood there's something missing in other words called diminishing it's not adding so then you're trying to tell me that's what happens to the words of Torah the Torah is diminished by this no wait read the next verse it's well fastened but what is that really in the to ye it means when we plant that means well fasten but it means when we plant what does a plant Oh grows and it multiplies okay so yes it starts off as a go to Pride and we asked what about the movable fact no but it's like an ounce of solid oh but doesn't the now draw some of the original material out it doesn't diminish no it actually it's like the next word to him and actually flourishes and multiplies so to matters of Torah flourish and multiply ah now we get to the crux of the matter what about these balling us of both those that are composed in collections this is talking about the Torah scholars they sit in many groups and these groups say one thing and these groups say the other right the exact words these are ritually impure the tum a and these render it tahoe or pure or d say it's us or forbidden and these say it's permissible Muhtar or D say it's pusle and these say it's kosher you have what we're left with is all of the different opinions so here is the crux of the matter this is what the clear card wanted us to see what if a person's gonna say hmmm now I can't study Torah Shem your Adam and honey Lama Torah how am I ever gonna learn Torah it's overwhelming and you never come to any conclusions anyway remember how we started when you have a doubt you go to your shall I am you go to these people the judges the coning the Laveen and you're gonna go by and I'm going to say now the majority of the group it's a vote they take a vote it's one group making a proclamation a verdict at the end so the verse says what does it say at the end it was given from one shepherd that's going to be the answer if a person ever says well how am I ever supposed to learn is there all over the place these Jews yeah but they recognize shmaaya al-hashemi okay no Shelikof God one God gave us the entire Torah and not only that we had one shepherd not just one Shepherd there but we had a one part nos we had one leader that Moses so he's the one who gave us the word from God I'll read the words exactly so the verse says they were all given from one Shepherd one God gave them and one leader that being Moses said them from the mouth of the master of all creation blessed be if you go to Exodus chapter 20 verse 1 the very first statement of and I'll just say it the ten state the ten commandments the ten statements it says the ADAAA elohim at coal had the very male ooo that God spoke all these words that means God spoke all these words when Moses received the Torah he received the physical parts of the Torah as the 40 years progressed but he received 49 the ways of looking at everything in one direction sorry and in 49 ways of looking at in the other direction so he received he received such unbelievable wisdoms and we'll see where this is leading I'll just read the actual word and God spoke all these words the twirl that says the very words indicates that God transmitted all the interpretations of the Ten Commandments you should know there are 620 letters in the first set of Ten Commandments 613 of those letters represent 613 mitzvahs and there were how much 620 - 613 is so good you think you know your mat excellent so there's different opinions but those 7 represent some say that there are 7 rabbinical concepts that were handed down at Mount Sinai others say and doesn't mean they're wrong right we have two sides the 7 universal laws for all mankind and 620 is cat hair so we're talking about the crown the crown of Torah this is why we're home to Torah we have Jews who are welcome welcome to the home and we have non-jews right who are open and willing to accept the 700 hide laws that were proclaimed at Mount Sinai and to reinvest in the world and support the Jewish people in their mission and I thank you for that for every one of you I want to thank you okay before we go to the next subject I just want to continue this good more because it's so it's so beautiful so then we just talked about what if a person you know said how can I study Torah so now here's advice you want to learn Torah make your ears like a funnel so what's a funnel a funnel it goes out wide right so if you make your ears like a funnel and your ears somewhat shaped like a funnel because you're able to gather in from both sides or three sides or all angles and pull it into the center that's what if you know the funnel is shakhter right what's called it Scottish it is because that's what you do you pour into it chiffon actually you when you come up with the right word you let me know cuz I know it sounds like that not at all when you pour it it's called shabbath shellfish so why wouldn't a funnel be called a factor maybe here we have it right here aspirated yeah that's the real word thank you square I just had to look down right in front of my eyes welcome home tutorial so make your ears like a funnel and acquire yourself an understanding to an understanding heart to hear both both all the statements that the rabbis made that's why it's just so beautiful to understand both sides why don't we pass him like he'll out why would we determine the halacha like he'll out because he was always started off by trying to understand the other side I want to understand the other side okay so let's go back into the clear car so we understood NIT número Eckhart and everything was given from one God so the clear card right away says hello HUD Ricou Sheila Dutta don't we come back to the first statement again I don't get it still still how can one ever learn Torah if so what very nice okay for one God but I'm still like divided there's so many opinions how am I supposed to know what to do what's the point of learning Torah so he says so soft a honey low meter right that's the question in the end how am I ever supposed to learn Ella beer Adama whoo this is what it's all about should the called of a tomb of the Torah eh come upon me mataró the kind of the comic punim the Tommo every single thing just as I explained Moses got 49 expressions of this and 49 expressions of that for every way you have to know there's more than one way to look at it there's more than one perspective I usually use the example if I had a bottle of soda right so you have words on this side you maybe have ingredients over here you might have more information over here we have 15 people sitting around not one of us can see the whole bottle and know the whole perspective each one has one fifteenth of the view but when we all discuss it together Wow what power what power there is that we can actually all together each one giving what they see have a better understanding of what really is there so I don't know if that's helpful at this point because we're gonna explain it on a little bit different what God really wanted let's be fair you have 15 ways of looking at things the end of the day you're coming at them with about we like yeah but is there something at the end of the day I could setting concrete this is what a great question so I'm gonna say two answers number one God wants what the sin hedger decided okay wait wait wait wait wait correct wait okay then there's a reality in heaven so when we've died 120 we'll know the ultimate reality but in the meantime the ultimate reality that we can deal with is in this world okay so there's two realities we're doing what God wants because we're going to follow the same Hedren here but like the good the gomorrah spoke about remedy Eleazar remember the whole you'll be doing that the tree chopped 400 meters right all that there's a reality in heaven and L rebellious was right and it helps us plenty because God said you are victorious over me you follow Sanhedrin this the tour is not in heaven tour itself says the tour is not in heaven it's right here the tour that I want you to follow is what the Sanhedrin the majority Sanhedrin decided that's what God wants so are we following the doctrine of man are we following the doctrine of God when we listen to st. Hedren the answer is we're following the doctrine of God and don't you feel good about it then you're not in doubt there people that there are a hundred million religions out there they don't know what's up or what's down but we know because we had ten Hedren that's basically what we have is this the the Talmud this shortened our oh this is what's handed down to us clarity okay so be any doubts we have we're going to wait for the same Hedren right Taegu we'll wait for the Sanhedrin to come back and be reestablished and we're praying for it every day several times a day maybe even more than several times a day thinking about it on a constant basis hallelujah praise the Lord come on God we're with you okay so here we go let's go on so we just read the Gemara and this is like this this is what it means that everything that is either impure or that is pure has different aspects to it now here's an example if the Torah actually says that something is pure okay let's take an animal certain animals take a deer you know why it's pure you know why it's pure not because the Torah says so because the st. Hatcher ultimately said so because of their interpretation and their understanding of the word and Torah for deer and that this species sitting in front of them is the deer they could say something different guess what we have to follow whatever the Sanhedrin says so watch what he says you know why it's pure because you have aspects of its appearance being pure that are outweigh the appearances of it not being pure and so too would the opposite be true look at then the same thing would apply whether it's of your dealer you're dealing with something that's permissible or forbidden or something kosher or not and now we're going into a gomorian Sanhedrin 17a that you do not appoint to the Sanhedrin somebody who is not capable of saying or making a declaration about a particular Acoma sure it's you know a good rodent of some sort this is a type of a rodent that is not pure according to the Torah the Sanhedrin could never appoint somebody or someone could not be appointed as a judge as to be on the Sanhedrin if they could not verbally explain to you how this Sherrod's could be considered pure that doesn't mean they're doing it it means they have the capacity of the mental ability to make a proof like you're talking about why the Jews make the best lawyers but this is what it says in st. Hedren listen rib Yunus says that Rob says I'm Rob you Dahmer Rob aim Moshe limbus in Hedren illumi shield Eilat I as a sheriff's min a Torah they would only place on the Sanhedrin one who knows how to render this particular type of a rodent pure by Torah law okay so now that sounds very strange but we're talking about the genius the ability it doesn't mean believe me the saint hadron had that ability they never did it in 3,000 years right or the thousands some years the same engine actually exists in a meth it didn't happen but to be on the sanhedrin you had to have this mental genius ability to have sort let's say see the other side right to be able to see the other side so the reason for this thing now this he's leaving into something amazing we have a concept called hor-aha so all those who are familiar you're not allowed to add to the Torah like this is one of the things that mr. JC Penney has been accused of that's yashka pendrick that he either added or subtracted right anybody who admits you're violating a total command because the thirst is not that add subtract however there's a thing called home Raksha which she means an emergency decree an order for a temp a temporary adjustment not forever so it's based on a verse what we're what was the clear cards claiming at this point is that if a judge or a prophet ever required to do this hotshot he's basically gonna rely on this verse which we're about to read and some minority opinion there's gonna be a minority opinion like this if we don't get rid of them he's gonna combine several thoughts of minority opinions let's I'll give you the example because he's gonna give it Elijah the Prophet he took her Bono's he made Kerberos he made offerings near Haifa somewhere in the Carmel area Carmel forests caramels is that for permitted or forbidden the Torah clearly says write clearly says you're not allowed once the basin my gosh once you have certain you're not allowed to offer the kirponos outside of the Mick Dodge outside of the holy area and yet he did and why did he do it did he break the law no he made what we call Haraki ah it was a temporary need he didn't add he didn't subtract he made a change for a moment and that is allowed to happen let's watch he says the reason for the matter is the if sometimes there's a need for Harsha to actually give a verdict a shock that is against the Torah it's because of this verse in Psalms 119 126 it says a slough salt la chef it's a time to act for the Lord it's a time to act for sham heythere ooh terasaka why because they have nullified they have made void your torah i highlighted the middle i rat our rabbis have were derived from it and look at Rashi from this verse that we may transgress the words of the Torah in order to make a fence and a war for Israel Dido and Elijah on Mount Carmel who sacrificed on high places that's an example so how did they come had it had an Elijah and Liao come to such a conclusion that it was permissible to do this even in a horrid shock let me tell you what he's gonna say only if there's a minority opinion and I'm minority opinion is always pushed aside never dissolve never erased never burnt put aside in case of what in case of necessity right in case it's necessary to bring it up out of the dustbin of history so you have this a slaw so /am a time to act for a sham because if you don't do it the Torah will be nullified so remember the people are sitting on the fence are you gonna worship Hashem we're gonna worship the bow the way to bring everything to a head like the theatrics the choreography was amazing you had this you know fire from heaven you had the water surrounding the carbonyls you had everyone who in denying and like okay so we're not gonna sit on the fence we're gonna make a choice so this was a way to bring the Torah back to the people right welcome home to Torah so right so here the idea is that the only way that Eliyahu could have Elijah could have done this is if there was a minority opinion that it was permissible watch how he puts it physically a car as you hold a hakama Oh Noddy then what using this verse is the time to act for a sham only then the the of the sage or the Prophet is able to litsa reckless bharat he's able to make a combination to combine this idea of a time to act for sham with those minority opinions osan meal flourish Kivar nittaku mark massero they've already been pushed off they've already been dismissed they've already been put into the Attic into the dustbin of history so to speak never to be looked at again no that's why we're learning them because in case there was a necessity to bring them back for example let's just say [Music] I'll give you a few examples I like this example to two ladies to vote both poor and they have a chicken and they see there's something questionable there so they go to their rabbi they bring their chicken rabbi is this chicken kosher so the rabbi says to this rich woman one's rich in one sport it's it's not it's not kosher strength is to buy yourself a new chicken now this poor person the exact same problem so she could expect the same answer but she doesn't get the same answer you know what the rabbi says to her it's kosher how can it be the truth is in this case it was a rabbinic issue if there was a Torah issue he would have to say it's not kosher to both of them but because the rabbinic when the rabbinic decree was made he was instituted already if there's a loss of money a rabbinic any time we have doubts on rabbinic sweer go lenient I should say any time when we talk about in doubtful situations the general the general course of events is to go lenient when there's a general doubt without about something on the Torah level we go strict so in this case it was rabbinic and the rapp I knew the circumstances the financial straits that this person was in to have to buy another chicken and he realized that the law doesn't apply to her it's kosher for her but for the wealthy woman it was not because the leniency does not apply to her okay it's just like one example we're gonna get into this he uses seho we're gonna see these words it's going to be amazing this is going to give you an insight when you ask a rabbi a question if he doesn't ask you questions back state run away from him when he's so eager to answer you based on whatever you thinks he heard from you I don't know I people come to me and I ask some questions you have to ask uh-huh get the full picture so here once we said that they're using those minority opinions even though they've already been pushed off in the past because of the majority but in this case they're going after the minority opinion just like Elijah the Prophet on hara carmel have an aim a mane haha kimono vo they assume soiree Allah hath oh but this is the general rule if that prophet or that wise sage does not know any logical explanation to be to go the opposite direction no way as Leila Lilia taro feel the Bihar Asha and that's why you've to be highly qualified to be on the same a journey you have to know it all so now he says her a eunuch li of latardo me Tom so even though it would not be something that would be kosher but in this case he says it's kosher because a slice of flesh am it's time to work for Hashem the mooks marson-knight timotha that you're going to take that minority opinion that leans towards whatever the opposite opinion is and it happens to be the majority at this point the same veteran may understand a minority opinion but all through history it was a minority opinion we never passed him like it but it was carried over in our tradition to teach it now at this playing stage you have the majority of the Sanhedrin agreeing that this is the case being based in shelah Mata now this is interesting if the court the earthly court postions they give a verdict that it's pure on something that is really not pure from the Torah since they have their own savaris they have their own reason to determine also for purity so then we're gonna rely on the majority of debate then in this world that would agree to purify it okay now co-op Garmin debating Sheila Mata you know what else was given a certain power was given to the court in this world and that is lawsuits Varis Lacan Lacan to see both sides the knitter Abreu has Varro's and note in the Senate Aris and it's for them to determine and to conclude by a majority whatever they decide I'll came younger this is why the rabbi's explained in the latter part of that Gomorrah that I mentioned make your ears like funnels and acquire for yourself an understanding or a heart they'll hearing heart that can hear both sides because in truth call others are coal arrows every human being you need to hear both sides you need to understand every equation it's impossible to beat on the Sanhedrin until you and the Dean are appointed you cannot be appointed senator unless you have this ability me times they ruin the cabo man feeling him oh you mean and that's why the end result is it's fitting to receive from them except from them when they say right it's left and left is right you've to accept it it's an awesome smartisan noting gamatatsu because they have in their minds they have the Minority Report that in their understanding this is the way it's going to go now I'm going to end with this piece because this will solidify everything I want you to stick around for this you're gonna love it the NASA column are if you want to say Sean Ruza AAHA D named Sheila dyin kiamashi Shana Royce that this idea is that we the die on the judge is only going to judge what his eyes see now what does that mean his eyes see that means a perception doesn't it it means solid facts in front of you but yet it's what you see not when you heard that's what you see so there's a verse in second chronicles chapter 19 verse 6 I have it here and he said to the judges see what you are doing for you do not judge do you do not judge from man but for the Lord so the judge is judging for God and he God is with you in the matter of judgment that's what I'm looking at but II must M had of our mishmash okay so you're not judging man you're doing this from the Lord so the clear card is using this for a point at the very bottom the very last part of this Rashi therefore scripture states and it is with you concerning the matter of judgment it is incumbent upon you to rule justly and the judge must deal only with that which he sees with his own eyes what does that mean that he sees with his own eyes I always took it literally to mean physical proof that's it right he's gonna go deeper he's gonna say like this there's actually referring to our verse when you have a doubt verse 8 world verse 11 but verse 8 said when you have a doubt being gained and being Dilla did everything is according to what the eye sees of the judge as a dove remove would not smell then everything will come clear on its own Kyodo the dude LP Omer da so he is going to conclude his decision his verdict on as Larry said Oh made dato on his assessment for his opinion it's an opinion everyone has an opinion but it's in the bottom line it's gonna be his opinion and now looking Zakaria chapter 8 verse 16 did I not put it in where is it out yet this is gonna be the crux of the matter these are the things that you shall do speak the truth each one with his neighbor hallo Davari machetes oooh deep brew mms speak truth each sro each man with his neighbor and this that's one thing that's called truth who mishpat judgment Shalom you mean we're gonna take these three items and understand that a judge look what it says shift to Bashar a camp the very you shall judge in your cities you shall judge using these three items make sure to use truth make sure to use judgment and I'm gonna go make sure to use shallow what does that mean how do you incorporate these three ideas into your judgment so it does say shift two they shall judge in their cities shift to is plural they those three items are going to be used in your judgment and what does it mean Bashar ahem the word shar means a gate but that's where business is done okay that's right business is done and that's also where the judges are our judgments are held but the word the root is assessment it means - it's a measure to measure something she or to measurement it's an assessment that's why key shlush Tom shrieking Hashanah sick leave when you're using you're using all three of these you have to use your common sense and assess them properly the only made a dot and use your own opinion the fee has mine according to several different circumstances meaning the time not just like the time on the clock the times you know the circumstances of the time how come the very place that it happened in my Indian and the concept when you're sitting and judging don't oh yeah this is it that's what the judgement we have to ask questions where does happen how did it happen when did it happen these are all very important questions Kim if I'm in Zurich Lashon out MS because sometimes you actually have to change what we call the truth McNair Shalom on account of peace because the Torah says we just read in Zakaria that you're gonna judge with Emma Smith spawn and Shalom you're gonna use all three in your ability to assess so - so you can't just be a mess you need Chellam but guess what it can't just be shallow so most it doesn't work and by itself and how do we know wait till you see this good more in Sanhedrin 71 do I have it here okay so we're talking about the statement that is one two three four it's like five lines down the Assembly of the wicked in one place is going to be detrimental to them and detriment to the world while the Assembly of the righteous is beneficial to them and beneficial to their world so we see that's called peace amongst the width the wicked is not a good thing now just like let's go back a second it starts by telling us if the wicked were dispersed not all collected in one place so that's going to be good for them because one of the wicked normally do they bring each other down they feed each other's ego and all kinds of you know I think that they say in in jail it's only what I know that I heard that that if you want to be a good good thief you go to jail for bits like a school for thievery you learn from the best I mean the fact that their jail doesn't really speak so much for them but they probably got it for tax evasion or something shoplift and what have they do treating the school yes okay so the dispersal meaning with the wicked we're all dispersed that's gonna be good for them and it's gonna be good for the world if you just wicked all dispersed what about the righteous if you disperse the righteous it's not good for them and it's not good for the world but now the Assembly of the wicked that's our verse the Assembly of the wicked is not good for them and it's not good for the world that's talking about peace among them and that is the point we just left off with where it says lo Rolla hem of Raleigh alum if you if you get all the evil people together so I want to introduce this with the idea and I hope I don't get banned from YouTube but when I read this I thought of the United Nations okay so then we don't have to go too much into detail if everyone understands those who understand understand okay volcana mishpat Sark XI or so the bottom line is all all judgment requires assessments measured you have to do and and an opinion you have to come to an opinion and a verdict that's based on a logical assessment so you have to synthesize both ms truth and peace let me just one more point that when we were learning and I think that they still teach this in tour in the chimas I hope they do that there are four volumes or four classes of Shaka Nara okay so you have from horik I am right all the way through you have these four major categories of God's law there's always a fifth and that's called common sense that you're sitting there with a book that's open and trust me you need to open it don't just start quoting things you know it's nice if you know them but open the book make the person who comes to you feel that it was a good question so you take the book off the shelf you open it up good it also gives you a little bit time to think hopefully some questions you need to ask them and that's called common sense you need to take that other book that the fifth column sums to the fifth volume and and imply that you don't just quickly know there is an idea you want to show off and of course a lot of us have big egos and we want to show that we know the answer quickly but if we take our time think the word sheet or is a measured response okay I think it's very good to have a minute and I think it's good in all of our actions most of us are not judges sitting with robes or sitting in a court but we walk around the daily judging situations judging people keep your mouth shut right obviously there's a time when you need to speak but it should be measured it should be right so I want to just let everyone know I really I like the fact you joined us tonight and and if you're watching this I'm glad you're watching it and I want to welcome you home to Tora and bless you with a holy Sabbath you should have an experience that is so uplifting this coming Shabbat and we're a month of ello so we here the show for being blown every day the word shofar my wife likes to point out is similar to the word the shop hair the shop hair means to improve so we hear the word when we hear the shofar we should think of and has to be pointed upwards right like hey what's the were they curved right don't jump too fast but of Makoto learning curve called a growing curve and so I bless you all we should continue to grow and I invite you to join us once again next week have a great life [Music]