Parashat Shoftim - Biblical Source For The Oral Torah

foreign [Music] that are going to keep us uh you know in essence at bay away from our own yitza give us a fence around the fence where even though you have defense of the toilet tells you what to do or what not to do the Torah commands us to also listen to that throughout the sages of the hamim of the generation of all the generations as every generation is going to have leaders uh that are like the mosheva benue of the generation not one and not two but perhaps many and nonetheless we have an obligation to listen to them where is that obligation it's in many places that one of them is in this week's parashatra team where it not only starts off with this commandment but it even goes further in uh chapter 17 uh verse number nine and on it says you shall come to the quanim to the Levites and to the judge which judge the very same same judge that dollar doe that big Rabbi that Dayan that we talked about in the beginning of the Pasha so you should come to the quanim to the Levites and to the judge who will be in those days which days Days of us obviously would say today in those days means Forever Until comes will be in those days you shall inquire and they will tell you the words of judgment meaning there's no such thing as I'm gonna pass in my own because I think I know better than because I think I'm smart no once don't say this is how we suck we all accepts if you ask you uh you have by the the customers and if you're with the uh but yourself and of course in order to know how to apply these rules uh into today many you know you need per scheme of of the of today to show you how to apply the original Law the original Law and to today for things that perhaps did not exist at that time whether it be electricity or or flying from place to place and how you deal with the hours and the changes uh the uh the whole issue of of of time zones and so on and so forth the point is is that you have to have the Dilemma you have to have the bed Dean uh that is a uh going to in essence rule over the people and you have to accept their judgments if there is a altercation between two Jews whether it be a business or otherwise they have to go to the bedding you're not allowed to go to a civil court unless unless one of the parties rejects the invitation of the bedding which at that point would put that person on that person would not be uh no one's allowed to do business with them anymore no one's allowed to count them in mignon and then you're allowed to take that person to a civil court you'll have a permission from the bedding but the point is is that you have if you go to a bedding the bed Dean gives a judgment you have to accept the badin's Judgment even if you disagree with it and you know that you're right and you feel that you're right whatever the judgment is that's what you go by why because that's what commands us to it's not a rabbinical enactment it's a biblical enactment to to to to follow the rabbis is not a rabbinical enactment like the Christian missionaries uh say but rather it's a Biblical commandment from where we see today in this week's so you shall come to the quranim to the Levites to the judges who will be in those days you shall inquire and they will tell you the words of judgment you shall do according to the word that they will tell you from the place that Hashem will choose and you shall be careful to do accordingly to everything that they will teach you according to the teaching the day will teach you and according to the Judgment the day will say to you this is also one of the many sources for the oral Torah of course the oral is not something that's it's not called or Ultra in the written there is if you know for whatever reason or another people believe that if you don't find the word or to Russian that means that it didn't exist it's it's a very high level of stupidity and ignorance uh in this generation nonetheless uh but the point is is that is the term that the sages used uh because it's called many different things sometimes it's simply insinuated one of the places that it's Encinitas teachings the teachings of these rabbis these judges what are they going to tell you teachings of the rainbow obviously you don't need the judges to tell you what the teachings are into lives you have it in front of you you need to know how to interpret the teachings of the ringtone which is the the oral to Allah and you have to listen to everything that they tell you everything that they teach you it says over here according to the teachings that they will teach you and according to the judgment and they will say to you shall you do you shall not deviate from the words that they will tell you right or left now what if somebody doesn't feel like doing it what if somebody decides to tell the world listen I know that the sages said that uh you have to cry who practically in every single day of your life every single prayer that you make that's technically what you're supposed to do when we say we do it as faradim we say we do in many today that uh take the new also say vidui every day we say in essence the reality is just supposed to cry I send Hashem that's what it's not just and for foreign why because that's how you pray but of course most people are not going to get to that level but the reality is we're supposed to cry we're supposed to uh follow what everything that agenda says and we know that we sometimes fail as the Torah itself says uh falls seven times and gets up even someone that's righteous falls seven times and gets up why is he because he continues to get up and he uses that fall as leverage in order to get himself to Iris he doesn't fall in the same way every time it's each time it's a new fault it's a new obstacle but nonetheless when the sages tell us what they tell us we have to follow what they say and if some superhero decides that he doesn't have you know you don't have to listen to the subhanallah and you don't have to pray like everybody else and you don't have to keep like everybody else and you could just listen to him and he knows him better than everybody else nobody in the world ninety percent of the Jews they arrogantly say ninety percent of the rabbis in the world don't even know what Judaism is he knows never even completed the shots even one time in his life but he knows better than the good he knows better than the most righteous people that ever lived he knows why because he uh likes to ride a motorcycle or he has a really long beard and he likes to tell people that God needs you or he uh has a lot of friends from the Christian world in the in the Muslim world and all of these Heretics that are out there in the world uh Unfortunately they continue coming up out of the ground like worms after rain or the guy tells you listen you can do whatever you want you know and pass into the way you you want and this and that and where did you learn this from from the zoo that you run in in the uh in the uh the uh the museum where do you where do you know all of this from where how you're better than all the biggest unfortunately many people are so arrogant that they don't even know what a dollar though is but they still think that they're better than them and here we have the thoughts commanding us to listen to the rabbis but not just any Rabbi of course you have to listen to rabbis but even more so when you're talking about the issues of the dolerado the leaders of the generation the heads of the bedding [Music]