How Flattery Destroyed a People - Parsha Shoftim - By Rabbi YY Jacobson

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[Music] [Applause] good evening tonight's class is dedicated in honor of the birth of a new baby boy - Shane D and schmoly Becker graciously dedicated by their friends David and EDA Schottenstein tonight we are going to explore what at the time I'm sure did not appear to be a very significant event but yet from the perspective of the rabbi's of the sages of the time it was a monumental event which occurs during one of the last if not the last special ceremony of jaquel during the Second Temple error and a brief introduction is necessary in this week's portion viola moisture AB a new Moses instructs the Jewish people that after every seven-year cycle in the beginning of the eighth year all of the Jewish people should gather together in Jerusalem in the place of the temple in the place of the baisama Kadesh ha que les Hama an awesome Venusian vltava every member of the Jewish nation would come together during the festival of Sukkot in the beginning of the eighth year following the seven-year cycle the seventh year being shmita the sabbatical year and a few weeks later in there in the festival of Sukkot the entire nation would come together and the king of Israel would read selected portions from a safe iturra from a Torah scroll to the entire congregation in the courtyard in the Ozora of the base a mikdash of the holy temple this was called hoc ale it was the only time once in seven years that the entire nation of his

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