DVAR TORAH - Shoftim - Rabbi Moshe Finkelstein

When the times of Messiah, the face of the nation of the generation will be like the face of a dog. You ever see [music] an owner walking his dog? He's walking down the block, right? The dog is always in the front. But who is really leading who? You know how you know who's leading who? [music] When the dog turns around, he's always looking to see if his master's following him. That's the shot and play a dark at the neck and out. The leaders of the generation are not really leading. They may be in the front, but if they're always looking back and seeing [music] what is my followers what are the are they following me and if they're not following me, I'll turn and try to you know, meet up with them. That's not considered to be a leader. In this week's parsha, there's a mitzvah called that you [music] should appoint yourself a king. Problem is in the times of Shmuel, Yisrael approached Shmuel and asked for a king. Shmuel got upset at them. Why did he get upset at them? The answer is in the way they asked. Over here it says sim tasim alecha melech on you. You want a leader to lead you. They asked lo lanu [music] melech. Give us a melech. What? Not because we want someone to lead, but we [music] just want a leader in order to just you know, as as maybe a face as a leader, but we didn't really want somebody that's going to actually [music] lead us. And that was the difference between the mitzvah in this week's parsha and what Yisrael [music] asked Shmuel.