Zera Shimshon - Shoftim #2 5785 - Rabbi Zvi Kahn

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[Music] Good evening viet. We are in the zer shim shon on para shaft. We're going to do o b section number two. It's a bit of a lengthy piece. So we're only going to do the first half tonight. Before we begin, let's take a look at two sukim from our para para shaftim. This is when you come into the land that Hashem your God gives to you and you will inherit the land and you will dwell in it. And you will say, I want to place a king upon myself like all of the nations around me. Next Pim, you shall shall surely place a king upon yourselves that Hashem your God will select him from among your brethren, you should appoint a king. you are not allowed or you are not able to put upon yourselves a foreigner who is not from your brethren. So when the Jewish people come into the land of Israel and they reach the point that they want to have a king, Hashem says you may have a king but uh he has to be a Jewish king. You can't choose some uh member of a royal family of another nation and appoint that person to be your king. So let's see what the shiman has to say about those section two. In the medisha it says when you come into the land that's the first of the tukim we just read we're looking for a statement of law if a Jewish king had a business matter a problem he had some kind of legal issue lun What is the law whether it's permissible for him to be judged befdon in front of bezdon? So you have kind of an unusual situation that leads to an unusual question. Let's say you have a

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1. 0:07[Music] Good evening viet. We are in the zer shim shon on para shaft. We're going…
2. 3:19Sanhedrino. A king does not judge and we do not judge him. He doesn't testify and…
3. 7:09him on trial and summoned Yanni Hamel to to be there as well as the owner…
4. 11:04dynasty because the excerpt from the opened asking about a mel judging having a case to…
5. 14:53regarding mal Israel but not malid so why did the meda include malvid from the puskin…
6. 18:43that a we saw this p earlier a year states about them there are the actual…
7. 22:20a king over usenu to judge us. So clearly the king needed to be able to…
8. 26:05and shifted away from that to talk about whether or not a mel can serve as…
9. 29:47even if the litigants accepted these men to judge them and these people said we're not…
10. 33:25not be appropriate and we shouldn't judge him. Zilu in order not to denigrate his honor.…

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