{"id":23265,"date":"2025-08-29T19:03:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T18:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sukkatshalom-bneinoach.com\/?p=23265"},"modified":"2025-08-29T19:03:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T18:03:19","slug":"parshat-shoftim-5785-have-a-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sukkatshalom-bneinoach.com\/fr\/parshat-shoftim-5785-have-a-king\/","title":{"rendered":"PARSHAT SHOFTIM 5785 - AYEZ UN ROI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>\u05d1\u05e1 \"\u05d3<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SHOFTIM  -  HAVE A KING\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1AV17hYMhZo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parashat Shoftim<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week&#8217;s Torah reading includes the commandment to appoint a king. However, we find that when the Jewish people asked the prophet Shmuel for a king, he got angry. Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Shofetim: The Commandment of a King<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week\u2019s reading is called <em>Shofetim<\/em>, which means \u201cjudges.\u201d In between all the commandments that appear in this <em>paracha<\/em>, there is one specific commandment about a king. The Torah says in Hebrew: <em>you should put on top of you a king.<\/em> The Torah then explains what a king should do, what kind of person he has to be, and what kind of life he has to live\u2014not too many horses, not too many wives, and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, that\u2019s about a king. The Torah gives a commandment to have a king. But when the Jewish people actually entered the land of Israel, they didn\u2019t have a king\u2014they just had judges. There\u2019s a whole book of Judges, full of stories of these leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last judge, so to speak, was Shmuel. The people came to him and asked for a king. \u201cWe want a king just like everybody else,\u201d they said. Shmuel got very angry about this. He didn\u2019t like it at all, and he spent the whole night praying to G-d. <em>What are these people doing? Why do they need a king?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>G-d basically told him: <em>Don\u2019t worry. They\u2019re not rejecting you. They\u2019re rejecting Me. So get over it. Put for them a king.<\/em> G-d told Shmuel\u2014who was not only a judge but also a prophet\u2014who was going to be king. His name was Shaul, the first king. Then other kings followed. And we also learn from this that a king has to be appointed by a prophet. Once appointed, kingship is passed from father to son\u2014unless it is interrupted, like in the case of Shaul, after which David became king.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there is a question here. If it is actually a commandment in our Torah reading, <em>Shofetim<\/em>, to have a king, why did Shmuel get so angry when the people asked for one? And why did G-d say, <em>They are rejecting Me<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One explanation is that there are two aspects of a king.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>There is the aspect of a king as a ruler: he has power, he knows tactics, he knows how to run a country. But the Jewish people didn\u2019t really need that.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There is another aspect of a king: the image of G-d in the world. A king like this knows Torah, lives on a high spiritual level, and his soul is bound up with the soul of the people. Just as the Torah says in many places, the leader of the Jewish people is like the Jewish people, and he is their head.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, the Hebrew word <em>Rebbe<\/em> is written with three letters: <em>rosh bnei yisrael<\/em>\u2014the head of the Jewish people. That is what a true leader is, just like the head takes care of the whole body and every single cell. The same applies to a <em>Rebbe<\/em>. And this is not only for Jews; it applies to non-Jews as well. Our Rebbe used to take care of non-Jews too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, two aspects: one is military, technical, political; the other is spiritual\u2014bringing down godliness into the world, being an image of godliness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the Jewish people asked Shmuel for a king, they said, <em>We want a king just like everybody else.<\/em> That is what made him so angry. Why ask for a king like this, when you could have a much higher kind of king? A king who brings G-d into the world. Other kings\u2014of other nations\u2014do not do this. They live for their passions and their own stupidity. Like Eglon, king of Moav, who was very fat because he just ate and ate, indulging himself in mundane pleasures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is why Shmuel was upset, and that is why G-d said: <em>They are not rejecting you. They are rejecting Me. They don\u2019t want to bring Me down into the world.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Applying the Story<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How can we apply this to our own lives?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are two ways in which we can put G-d over us as King.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>One way is to see Him as a ruler: do what He says because otherwise He will punish you. This is fear-based and external.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The other way is to see Him as the true King: to serve Him with love and awe, to want to reveal Him in the world\u2014the reason He created the world in the first place, to have a dwelling place here on earth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>So, each of us has to ask: What type of relationship do I have with G-d? Is it like with a ruler, out of fear of punishment? Or is it like with a father in heaven, out of love and the desire to bring godliness into this world?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Discours du rabbin Tuvia Serber<\/strong><br><br><br>Le texte ci-dessus est une repr\u00e9sentation du texte parl\u00e9 converti en texte \u00e9crit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a9 Copyright, tous droits r\u00e9serv\u00e9s. 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