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Shoftim - Let me walk you out | Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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Hi, this is David and welcome to the para in five where in five minutes we try to give you some insight that will hopefully add to your shabas para chaftim. So the end of the parisha tells us the story of the agelufa. What is the story of the agela? A person was found dead on the middle of nowhere. Somebody killed him. Well, what do we do? We measure the distance from all the do? We measure the distance from all the nearest cities and whichever was the nearest city, the elders come out and they declare, "We did not kill this guy." And they wash their hands. And then they take soil ground that has never been dug and they take a young calf and they cut off, hit it from the back of the neck, kill it, bury it in that place. You really thought that the zakanim You really thought that the zakanim might have killed this person? That's what we're worried about. So it says no we were not malava him because if we were malav him then nobody would have attacked him. If we had walked him out of the city how far do they have to walk him dollars which by the way is um a den when you have guests you're supposed to walk them out of the house. Yeah. Some people are mocked on this and

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  1. 0:00Hi, this is David and welcome to the para in five where in five minutes we…
  2. 0:32do? We measure the distance from all the nearest cities and whichever was the nearest city,…
  3. 1:03You really thought that the zakanim might have killed this person? That's what we're worried about.…
  4. 1:35Yeah. Some people are mocked on this and some people are not. Yeah. Um, my downstairs…
  5. 2:09which was an inn and it's a and some geres say lina eat he gives you…
  6. 2:39with ash." Yeah. So, walking out is important, but they only have to walk him down.…
  7. 3:10going to deal with us because we care about the people who are traveling the roads…
  8. 3:40says, "Old man Adler walks behind every pair of Adler shoes." Yeah. when I walk you…
  9. 4:12shabas out. We walk them out. We have a maleva mala. We walk out the queen…

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