Law and Order - Shoftim (Rabbi Dovid Kaplan) (Weekly Parsha)

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Okay. All right. So, we're we're resuming our para here. Um we are in para shaft page 1024. >> 10:24. Uh people in the back. People in there's >> huh? >> Rabbis in the back. >> Yeah. I don't know. You better keep it that way. >> Okay. 10:24. judges and enforcers you shall have in all of your gates, meaning your cities, which God gives you to your tribes, and they shall judge the people justly. Justly, justly. Don't distort the judgment. Don't bend the judgment. Don't play favorites. Literally Don't play favorites. Literally literally means don't recognize faces. Don't take bribes. Bribery blinds the eyes of the wise. It distorts the words of the righteous. One more sed. You must pursue justice. Justice. Justice. You must pursue order that you live. Okay. So, what's what's it all about? So, first of all, be aware that modern Hebrew modern Hebrew has has had a uh a certain effect on us. Hi guys, come on in. Modern Hebrew is could maybe get some there. There should be kamachi for all the guys. Welcome guys. Come on in. Um uh modern Hebrew has has kind of uh uh modern Hebrew has has kind of uh affected us. It it's misled us because in modern Hebrew a chhater is a policeman. So we where does the word come from? Because the Torah saysim. Thanks. the Torah talks in terms of enforcers. So in modern Hebrew, you know, so when you read the you think, oh, there's a guy with a blue uniform and a uniform and a whistle. It doesn't say that. He happens to be when there's a court, the

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1. 0:00Okay. All right. So, we're we're resuming our para here. Um we are in para shaft…
2. 4:03people. They're very righteous people. They're not going to take bribes. And they they move the…
3. 8:41him an apartment. He gave him said, "You just got to go take what you want.…
4. 13:16you know that that then I would do that bad bad right bad bad and then…
5. 17:51judgment Should I do it or not? Enforcers means then mustering up the willpower to carry…
6. 22:30shvet in Hebrew? A shave in Hebrew means a tribe, but a shave also means a…
7. 26:33sitting with a former friend of mine at the table and I bit my tongue real…
8. 31:04I But, you know, I've had my day. You know, I don't know. Temptation. Oh, guy…
9. 35:41So one of the answers over here is that a judge who takes the bribe. Now…
10. 40:22seducka later earlier. Last week's paral talk about stuck. Why does it say no? What do…

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