Zera Shimshon - Shoftim #2b 5786 - Rabbi Zvi Kahn

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The opening of this shiur, in Zera Shimshon’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[music] Good evening, Dober Viet. We are in the Zera Shimon on Parim. Previously actually I think last year maybe two years ago we did the first half of Adruch Bay of uh part of section two on this para and para showed him we have we have done all of the parts all of the different uh sections in the zeros shim on this para even either completely which is most of them are partially which is a few of them. So now at this point our only choice is to come back and start to complete uh God willing complete uh the ones where we only did the first part. So that's the situation now. We did the first part which we'll summarize in a moment and we're going to complete it God willing tonight. So this piece in the Zer Shimong deals with a very interesting issue. the issue of can a king, a melik, can a Jewish king uh be judged and can a Jewish king judge, serve as a judge. And the reason those two things are connected is because there's a Mishna that the Zerosim brings in in the first half of this piece uh which sayso a Jewish king doesn't judge. he doesn't serve as a judge and we don't judge him. So that would see if that was the only source that would be this would be uh we wouldn't need to have two different we wouldn't need this piece and to have two different sections. It would be a very simple uh answer. No, the king can't

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1. 0:09[music] Good evening, Dober Viet. We are in the Zera Shimon on Parim. Previously actually I…
2. 3:59before the court that Gomorrah says and he sat down and they told him he needed…
3. 7:48even though he caused there to be damage to the litigant. Let's say he ruled against…
4. 11:44him to pay. That's not what we do either. So even though at this point the…
5. 15:57gives different suggest suggestions as to what the details of the situation were and what is…
6. 19:54that it is dependent on that individual to give permission to others to judge them. So…
7. 23:43says at a certain point the Jews needed Jewish people needed to appoint a king. So…
8. 28:00the decree that was made about Yanay was made in a case when he was called…
9. 31:53And the way to understand the Mishna is as follows. A king cannot serve as a…
10. 35:40Melik Israel. It meant it was referring to a house of the a king of the…

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