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After rehearsing detailed instructions about the celebration of the Passover (16:1-15), and having briefly mentioning all three Pilgrim Festivals (Pesach, Shavuot and Sukkot - verses 16-17), Moses exhorts the assembled Israelites with a charge that remains perpetually relevant: \u201cYou shall appoint judges and officers for your tribes, in all the settlements that the Lord your God is giving you, and they shall govern the people with righteous judgement. You shall not misdirect judgement. You shall show no partiality. You shall not take bribes, for bribery blinds the eyes of the wise and falsifies the words of the righteous. Justice, justice shall you pursue! -- that you may thrive and occupy the land that the Lord your God is giving you\u201d (18-20). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Midrash (Tanhuma Shoftim 7) elaborates on this passage in a way that makes it even more relevant to our day: \u201c\u2018You shall not misdirect judgement. You shall show no partiality\u2019\u201d \u2013 this is a warning to the <\/span>Nasi<\/span><\/i>.\u201d Now, in Rabbinic times, <\/span>Nasi<\/span><\/i> was the title of the \u201cChief Justice\u201d of the Sanhedrin. Today, <\/span>Nasi<\/span><\/i> is the title of the President of the State of Israel, who is formally charged with delegating the presumptive Prime Minister to attempt to form a coalition government. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cNo <\/span>Nasi<\/span><\/i> should elevate the undeserving to high office, in preference to those who are worthy of being placed in positions of authority. Another interpretation: \u2018You shall not misdirect judgement\u2019 in monetary matters. And \u2018You shall show no partiality\u2019 in the respect that should be shown to all litigants, for example, by letting the rich sit, while the poor remain standing. \u2018You shall not misdirect judgement\u2019 is also a warning to the Rabbinic Sage. He must not sit in judgement with another not qualified to serve as judge. For if he does so, it is as if he has planted an <\/span>Asherah <\/span><\/i>(a tree worshipped as a foreign deity), as indicated by what follows immediately in the biblical text: \u2018You shall not plant for yourself an <\/span>Asherah <\/span><\/i>of any kind of tree beside the altar of the Lord your God\u2019\u201d (verse 21). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cAnother interpretation of \u2018You shall not misdirect judgement\u2019 \u2013 Judges should conduct themselves as if the Shekhinah were sitting in judgement with them, as it says: \u2018God judges amongst the judges\u2019 (Psalms 82:1). Moreover, judges are told: \u2018Consider what you are doing, for you judge not only man but also God\u2019 (2 Chronicles 19:6). Rabbi Hama bar Hanina exclaimed: \u2018If this were not written in Scripture, it would not be possible to say that mere flesh and blood human beings judge their Creator! But this verse can be understood as God Himself saying to the judges: Whenever you render judgement, do so with trepidation, as if you were judging Me.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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From a Jewish perspective, is having a king a good thing or a bad thing? It turns out, to be almost unanswerable.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

On the one hand, the Torah does say, \u201cset over you a king.\u201d This is a positive command. Maimonides counts it among the 613. On the other hand, of no other command anywhere does it say that that it is to be acted on when the people say that they want to be \u201clike all the surrounding nations.\u201d The Torah doesn\u2019t tell us to be like everyone else. The word <\/span>kadosh<\/span><\/em>, \u201choly\u201d, means, roughly, to be set apart, singular, distinctive, unique. Jews are supposed to have the courage to be different, to be <\/span>in<\/span><\/em> but not entirely <\/span>of<\/span><\/em> the surrounding world.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

If having a king is a good thing, why does God say that it means that the people are rejecting Him? If it is a bad thing, why does God tell Samuel to give the people what they want even if it is not what God would wish them to want?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Judaism is not an argument for powerlessness\u2026.Instead, Judaism is an argument for the limitation, secularisation and transformation of power.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Limitation<\/span><\/em>: Israel\u2019s kings were the only rulers in the ancient world without the power to legislate. For us, the laws that matter come from God, not from human beings. To be sure, in Jewish law, kings may issue temporary regulations for the better ordering of society, but so may rabbis, courts, or local councils.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Secularisation<\/span><\/em>: in Judaism, kings were not high priests and high priests were not kings. Jews were the first people to create a \u201cseparation of powers,\u201d a doctrine normally attributed to Montesquieu in the eighteenth century. When some of the Hasmonean rulers sought to combine the two offices, the Talmud records the objection of the sages: \u201cLet the royal crown be sufficient for you; leave the priestly crown to the descendants of Aaron.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Transformation<\/span><\/em>: fundamental to Judaism is the idea of servant leadership. There is a wonderful statement of it in our chapter. The king must have his own sefer Torah<\/em>, \u201cand he shall read from it all the days of his life \u2026<\/span> not considering himself superior to his kinsfolk<\/span><\/em>, or straying from the commandments to the right or to the left\u201d (17:19-20).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Humility is the essence of royalty, because to lead is to serve.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From:\u00a0<\/span>To Lead is to Serve (Covenant & Conversation, Shoftim 5778)<\/span><\/em><\/p>","post_main_content_image":"","post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"Limits of Power IV","tile_main_caption":"To Be Different - Like Everybody Else","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Judaism is an argument for the limitation, secularisation and transformation of power","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":"","tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Deuteronomy","chapter":"17","chapter_main_number":"170","date":"20260423","wall_id":"170"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"354","name":"Rabbi Sacks","old_id":"754"},{"term_id":"402","name":"Leadership","old_id":"802"},{"term_id":"503","name":"Power","old_id":"903"}]},{"order":3,"id":"51126","color":"#effaea","size":"1","name":"Modeling Godliness in Providing Refuge ","post_title":"Modeling Godliness in Providing Refuge","slug":"modeling-godliness-in-providing-refuge","old_id":"51126","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":50767,"post_title":"Margo Hughes-Robinson","slug":"margo-hughes-robinson","old_id":"50767","first_name":"Margo ","last_name":"Hughes-Robinson ","description":"Margo Hughes-Robinson is a third year rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary, and currently serves as a Marshall T. Meyer Rabbinic Fellow at B\u2019nai Jeshurun (NYC). An interfaith educator and advocate, Margo has worked in the US and internationally at the intersection of faith and human rights. ","short_description":"Margo Hughes-Robinson is a third year rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary, and is a Marshall T. Meyer Rabbinic Fellow at B\u2019nai Jeshurun (NYC).","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":50768,"alt":"","title":"margo hughes robinson","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/margo-hughes-robinson.jpg","width":828,"height":820,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/margo-hughes-robinson-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/margo-hughes-robinson-300x297.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":297,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/margo-hughes-robinson-768x761.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":761,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/margo-hughes-robinson.jpg","large-width":828,"large-height":820,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/margo-hughes-robinson.jpg","1536x1536-width":828,"1536x1536-height":820,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/margo-hughes-robinson.jpg","2048x2048-width":828,"2048x2048-height":820,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/margo-hughes-robinson.jpg","post_full_size-width":828,"post_full_size-height":820,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/margo-hughes-robinson-424x420.jpg","home_baner-width":424,"home_baner-height":420}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"172","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"The commandment of sanctuary pushes us to the limits of compassion","post_main_content_content":"

In its discussion of the mitzvah of sanctuary, the book of Deuteronomy describes a devastating set of circumstances. Someone in the community has been killed. The victim\u2019s family is shattered, and may wish to pursue the perpetrator according to their right of blood-vengeance. The culprit, who never intended to hurt his fellow, sits in a liminal state of culpability: while he does not assume the blood guilt of a murderer, the death he has caused cannot remain unaddressed.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

While both the guilt and the way forward are unclear in this situation, the pain is palpable. And it is within this network of uncertainty that the Torah emphasizes the need for cities of refuge. This mitzvah, the text insists, is incumbent not upon the death-causer or the blood-avenger, but upon the whole community of Israel. By establishing these nine cities- enough so that one is always accessible to a pursued individual- we are enacting the commandment \u201cto love the Lord your God, and to walk in God\u2019s ways for all days.\u201d (19:9)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The medieval commentator Ibn Ezra emphasizes the continuous nature of this mitzvah, that the pursuit of God\u2019s ways is an ongoing project. By creating and maintaining these cities of refuge, we model Godliness.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

To care for the vulnerable, even for those whose action have resulted in harm, is to take powerful steps towards this continuing mitzvah. What is asked of us in the commandment of sanctuary is a communal push to the limits of <\/span>r<\/span>achamim<\/span><\/em>, mercy or compassion<\/span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n

The city of refuge cannot heal the pain of the family in their loss, nor can it enact a perfect justice for the accidental death-causer. 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Plan A: the children of Israel are ruled by God through God\u2019s laws and vision for human society. The leaders, prophets like Moses, elders and priests, guide the people in achieving this. In this way, the people serve God, by representing God on earth through ritual, ethics and their behavior toward one another and the stranger.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Anticipating the unexpected is crucial to a successful outcome, hence Plan B. When the people enter and establish themselves in the land, they will want a king \u201cas do all the nations about [them]\u201d (17:14).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In our chapter, Moses lays out what kingship looks like for the people of Israel:<\/span><\/p>\r\n