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Shoftim 5781 BS”D August 13, 2021; 5 Elul 5781 Potomac Torah Study Center Vol. 8 #43, August 13, 2021; 5 Elul 5781; Shoftim 5781 .. NOTE: Devrei Torah presented weekly in Loving Memory of Rabbi Leonard S. Cahan z”l, Rabbi Emeritus of Congregation Har Shalom, who started me on my road to learning 50 years ago and was our family Rebbe and close friend until his untimely death. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Devrei Torah are now Available for Download (normally by noon on Fridays) from www.PotomacTorah.org. Thanks to Bill Landau for hosting the Devrei Torah. New: a limited number of copies of the first attachment will now be available at Beth Sholom on the Shabbas table! __________________________________________________________________________________ Mazel-Tov to Judy Frank and family on the second Bar Mitzvah of her husband Jerry at Beth Sholom in Potomac, MD. Mazel-Tov also to their children, Danny (Susan), Aaron (Laura), and Abbey (Marc Israel), and grandchildren Rachel, Ateret, Yanniv, Davi, Neri, Elianna, Micah, and Oren. __________________________________________________________________________________ Parshat Shoftim focuses on government, the legal system, and their impact on individuals. As I have mentioned before, Rabbi David Fohrman and his scholars at alephbeta.org demonstrate that many of the specific laws (many of the 613 mitzvot) take incidents from earlier in the Torah and translate them into laws. For example, Moshe orders the people to establish cities of refuge where inadvertent killers may go to escape revenge for the dead person’s relatives (ch. 19). Rabbi Fohrman explains that the precedent for cities of refuge was God’s reaction after Kayin killed his brother Hevel (Bereshis 4:8). Since no one had ever died before, and obviously no one had ever killed another human, Kayin had no way to know that in striking his brother he would kill him. The killing lacked intent and thus legally was manslaughter rather than murder. God punished Kayin by forcing him to wander over the land, but He gave Kayin a mark on him warning others that He would punish anyone who harmed Kayin (4:10-15). A Jewish court requires witnesses to convict – and a guilty verdict requires testimony of a minimum of two witnesses (17:6; 19:15). Daniel Lowenstein and Beth Lesch trace the requirement of two witnesses to Bereshit ch. 41, with Yosef interpreting Paro’s dreams and noting that the repetition of a dream means that it is a true message from God. Rabbi Yitz Etshalom (in a Dvar Torah from much earlier in the Torah) takes this concept further by analyzing dreams in Avraham’s family. The family tradition is that one dream is not necessarily meaningful, but two dreams with the same message mean that God is giving a prophesy. A prophet’s repeated dream is equivalent to two witnesses – enough evidence to determine truth. As Lowenstein and Lesch observe, in Shoftim, the Torah presents the concept of using two witnesses to establish guilt in the context of punishing idolatry. Moshe and subsequent Jewish leaders fought idolatry from the time of Avraham through the entire period of the prophets. One who commits a crime without witnesses will escape Jewish court but will not escape punishment. God punishes the guilty who escape a human court. When God brought B’Nai Yisrael out of Egypt, much of His effort (and Moshe’s) involved teaching the people who Hashem was and especially teaching our ancestors that God loves the Jews. This understanding is the basis of every Torah law, and Hashem’s love for us is the starting point of any true teshuvah during Elul, as we prepare for the High Holy Days. 1 We have an example of God’s teaching us his love in the opening of Shoftim: “Shoftim and Shotrim shall you appoint in your cities” (16:18). The previous use of “Shotrim” in the Torah was the officers that Paro ordered to make the Jewish slaves gather their own straw to make bricks when Moshe asked for a three day holiday for the people (Shemot 5:6). Paro’s shotrim punished B’Nai Yisrael. The main responsibility of Hashem’s shotrim was to see that the people obeyed the shofrim and mitzvot – but look at the examples the Torah gives. The shsotrim are to send home soldiers who are waiting to get married, have a new home in which they have not yet lived, have planted a vineyard but have not yet enjoyed its fruits, or fear going into battle (20:5-9). God’s shotrim are a tikkun for Paro’s shotrim. Where Paro used his shotrim to punish the people, Hashem uses His shotrim to extend mercy. As with many other examples (as I have discussed over the weeks), God uses incidents in the memories of B’Nai Yisrael to show His divine love and mercy in comparison to similar incidents in which our ancestors were the victims of others. Rabbi Yehoshua Singer illustrates Hashem’s love for us with a recent story from New York. When a little boy was missing, hundreds of people dropped everything to search for him in pouring rain. Baruch Hashem, they found him, and the volunteers collectively spontaneously starting singing and dancing - in the pouring rain. The song, in Hebrew, translates as “Hashem's kindnesses, for they never end, for His mercies are never ending.” Here is God’s message for us for Elul. As Moshe also warned the people, our enemies will always be nearby, ready to attack when we stop trusting in and building a close relationship with God. As international organizations continue to attack Israel and threaten Jews all over the world, it is nice to see occasional signs of improvement. We had one recently, when the African Union invited Israel to observe its sessions and address the union, after expelling Israel nearly 20 years ago: (https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-joins-african-union-as-observer-state-after-being-kept-out-for-2-decades/ My family observes the 14th yahrtzeit of my father, Shlomo ben David, Sam Fisher, on 7 Elul (Motzi Shabbat). My father, though not himself religious, was glad that our sons were both Jewish from birth, and he would have been glad to know that he has four Jewish grandsons. As my father’s yahrtzeit approaches, I also recall my beloved Rebbe, Rabbi Leonard Cahan, z”l, because a person’s Rebbe is like his father. May both their memories be for a blessing. Shabbat Shalom, Hannah & Alan ________________________________________________________________________________ Much of the inspiration for my weekly Dvar Torah message comes from the insights of Rabbi David Fohrman and his team of scholars at www.alephbeta.org. Please join me in supporting this wonderful organization, which has increased its scholarly work during the pandemic, despite many of its supporters having to cut back on their donations. ________________________________________________________________________________ Please daven for a Refuah Shlemah for Mordechai ben Chaya, Hershel Tzvi ben Chana, David Leib ben Sheina Reizel, Uzi Yehuda ben Mirda Behla, Dovid Meir ben Chaya Tzippa; Zvi ben Sara Chaya, Eliav Yerachmiel ben Sara Dina, Reuven ben Masha, Meir ben Sara, Ramesh bat Heshmat, and Regina bat Allegra, who need our prayers. I have removed a number of names that have been on the list for a long time. Please contact me for any additions or subtractions. Thank you. _____________________________________________________________________________ Hannah & Alan 2 Drasha: Shoftim: Battle Cry of the Jew By Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky © 1998 [Please remember Mordechai ben Chaya for a Mishebarach!] Approaching war correctly may be more difficult than waging war itself. In order to prepare Klal Yisrael for war a series of queries were presented to them. Soldiers who were newlywed or had recently built new homes or planted new vineyards were told by the officer in charge to leave the army and return home. Furthermore, soldiers who were faint of heart morally or spiritually were asked to return home so as not to weaken the hearts of others in battle. But war must begin with encouragement. So before the officers ask the questions that may relieve some soldiers from active duty, the kohen gives a moral boosting speech. The kohen opens with Judaism’s most famous words, “Sh’ma Yisrael – Hear Oh Israel! You are about to approach battle on your enemies. Let you hearts not whither and do not fear, tremble, or be broken before them. For Hashem who will go with you, fight with you, and save you” (Deuteronomy 20:3-4). Rashi comments on the hauntingly familiar expression of “Sh’ma Yisrael – Hear oh Israel!” Those words are the national anthem of the Jewish nation whose doctrine of belief is contained in the declarative that follows. “The L-rd our G-d the L- rd is One” (Deuteronomy 6:4). Rashi connects the pre-battle pep-talk in Parshas Shoftim with the famous words read week’s earlier in Parshas Va’eschanan. He explains that the expression, “Hear oh Israel” used in the kohen’s prologue is actually used as a hint to Hashem. The kohen is in essence reminding Hashem of the unofficial anthem that Jews recite twice daily, world-over. The kohen is in essence declaring that “even if the Jewish people have only the merit of the words Hear oh Israel, they are worthy to be victorious and saved (from the ravages of war).” I was wondering. Isn’t the kohen talking to the people? If Rashi tells us that with this choice of words there is a subtle message to Hashem, can we not also presume that there is perhaps, an important, if only subtle message to His nation as well? Refusenik Yosef Mendelevitch, imprisoned in a work camp by Soviet authorities refused to give up his religious convictions.
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