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Parsha Perspectives - Shoftim

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Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

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Okay, good evening everyone. Welcome back to para perspectives for today. It's great to be back. Barashem just landed today from Israel. And I have to tell you, it's very hard to leave. Every time you leave Israel, you leave a piece of yourself, to come back to to be whole again. But for me, the opportunity and the privilege to come back, to learn together, to grow together, it's essentially the only excuse or reason to be able to leave. And so, I'm honored and grateful that you're here this evening. Starting next week, we'll back to our regular scheduled slot in time, We are marching on in Mosha's monologue Mosha saliloquy the last days hours of his life in which he's turning to the people as they are on the cusp of entering the land without him. And he's sending them in with a message he's sending them in with a charge. He's reminding them these are mistakes we've made. This is what's gone right. This is what you need to look out for. And this is your purpose and your mission when you enter that land. So he continues now that we have an obligation and responsibility to place judges and officers in all of our cities that officers in all of our cities that Hashem gives us. And then those judges and those police will exact they'll practice righteous judgment in all of those communities. And the Torah continues, "Don't pervert just judgment. Don't disrespect someone's presence." Don't take a bribe. Because bribery blinds the eyes of the

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