Shoftim: 5783 - Rabbi Shimon Zonnenfeld from Nachlah, with an insight on the weekly parsha: "Judges and officers shall you appoint for yourself," on the great power contained in a Torah ruling by a rabbi. The idea is shared at the conclusion…

00:00 Speaker 1 Rabbi Zalman, please. “You shall appoint judges and officers in all your gates, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.” In every town, in every place, a beis din must be established to judge the people fairly. There was a great chossid of the Alter Rebbe named Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac of Vitebsk. He was the rabbi of Vitebsk for many, many years. Once, on a Friday before Shabbos, as he was on his way to the mikveh, a Jew met him and said, “I have a case for a din Torah. I want you to hear it.” The rabbi said, “You couldn’t find a better time? Right now, before Shabbos?” He answered, “No. I work all week and have no time. Friday is when I have time.” The rabbi said, “All right, come.” They went into the beis din room. “Whom do you want to bring a claim against? Who is your case with?” He said, “I have a case against Hakadosh Boruch Hu.” He was a Jew learned in Torah, and he was very serious. The rabbi asked, “What is your claim?” He said, “The Gemara says there are three partners in a person: his father, his mother, and Hakadosh Boruch Hu. I have several grown daughters. I don’t have the money to marry them off. We don’t have it, but the third partner does. So I’m bringing a claim against Hakadosh Boruch Hu: He has the means, He can do it, so why shouldn’t He give?” The rabbi considered the case seriously and told him, “You’re right.” The Jew went home happy and told his wife, “The rabbi said I won the case.” That was on Friday. On Sunday he went to work. He was a teacher of young children. At midday, an elegant carriage stopped near his house. The landowner’s wife, the... had a terrible, unbearable toothache. And the Jew’s wife knew how to whisper a healing incantation. People used a remedy of

02:27 Speaker 1 whispered incantations, and she had a terrible toothache. So she came to this woman.

02:36 Speaker 2 The woman who whispered incantations.

02:36 Speaker 1 She whispered over her teeth, because she couldn’t bear the pain. She whispered and did what she did.

02:42 Speaker 2 The pain went away.

02:44 Speaker 1 The pain went away. Boruch Hashem, she felt no pain. So she asked what she could pay her. The woman said, “I have grown daughters. I need to marry them off.” She said, “Leave it to me. I’ll... I’ll cover all the expenses.” Hakadosh Boruch Hu paid up right away. Have a good month, and may you be inscribed and sealed for a good year.

03:04 Speaker 2 Amen.