Feb. 12, 2026

Parshas Mishpatim: God’s Kindergarten: The Lesson Most Adults Still Haven’t Learned

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Imagine the world as a bright, noisy classroom, God at the front as a wise teacher, and all of us as kindergartners still learning how to listen, share, and keep our hands to ourselves. That simple picture becomes a key for unlocking Parshas Mishpatim, turning dense legal chapters into a living guide for how to build trust, repair harm, and honor the people right beside us.

We trace the Torah’s powerful shift from duties to God to duties to each other and unpack why the opening word—“Ve’eleh,” and these—matters so much. It’s the bridge that puts interpersonal law on the same Sinai pedestal as Shabbat and prayer. Through the classroom lens, rules about damages, lending, theft, negligence, and employer‑employee obligations stop feeling abstract. They become the laminated poster on the wall: use kind words, return what you take, arrive on time, protect the small and the new kid, listen when a friend speaks. Rewards and consequences are not bribes and threats; they are the structure that keeps learning possible.

Then we go deeper. Some rules fit everyone, but some care is personal. Just as a parent privately tells the teacher about allergies and sensitivities, the Torah reveals what people can’t tolerate—exploitation, delay, gossip, humiliation—and what helps them thrive—fairness, patience, timely repayment, quiet dignity. We explore how studying your friend’s needs turns halacha into relational wisdom. Advanced sugyas in Bava Kamma and Bava Metzia come alive as tools to restore safety after harm and to keep the classroom calm enough for souls to grow.

By the end, holiness looks less like grand gestures and more like everyday restraint: easing envy’s sting, slowing down on the road, helping lift a burden on the shoulder of I‑95, noticing who stands alone. Keep the classroom image in your mind and Mishpatim starts to sing—justice with a human touch, kindness with a spine, and law as the architecture of peace. If this reframing moved you or clarified a mitzvah you’ve struggled with, subscribe, share the episode with a friend, and leave a review to help others find the show. What classroom rule do you think our world needs most today?

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00:00 - The Kindergarten Lens On Mishpatim

00:45 - God As Teacher, We As Students

02:36 - Classroom Rules And Rewards

06:59 - Shift To Bein Adam Lechavero

10:56 - From Sinai: The Power Of “Ve’eleh”

13:55 - Seeing Harm Through The Teacher’s Eyes

16:18 - Beyond Rules: Knowing Each Child’s Needs

18:24 - Learning Your Friend’s Preferences

21:52 - Bringing The Analogy To Life

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Here's the thesis of this episode.

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Parshas Mishpatim is not complicated.

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We've complicated it.

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Read Parshas Mishpatim as a kindergartner would, and you'll hear something that your adult mind may have forgotten, but your heart still entirely comprehends.

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You gotta dial it back and channel your inner child.

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Read Mishpatim like a kindergartner, and it all makes sense.

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Begins to show us that understanding ourselves as kindergarteners and as God, the Mora, God, the student, the organizer and teacher in the classroom, that's a way that we're supposed to observe our lives, life's experiences.

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Hoidi Aini no cut.

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Hoidi Aini Hashem Derek.

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Hashem, show me your ways.

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Hadrichini, guide me.

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The Amitha and your truth, the Lam Dani and teach me.

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Teach me, teach me.

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We ask Hashem to be our teacher.

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And we hope that we ourselves will be good students.

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A postak that directly frames us as the children, the students, and Hashem, the teacher, and essentially.

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What I'd like to develop here, to imagine and bring to life, is that the world is a big kindergarten classroom where Hashem is the teacher at the front of the class.

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We're all the kindergartners learning how to walk and use the bathroom, follow directions, trying not to cry, trying to laugh, trying to eat and keep our hands to ourselves and not make a mess.

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And when you live in this classroom of the world and you try to understand the Torah in this way, things start to make sense, and especially Parsash Ms.

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Sputum.

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And you view it like a classroom, it makes a lot of sense.

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See, there are rules in a classroom to have a successful, productive classroom relies upon a foundation of mutual respect.

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A classroom, any good classroom, needs to have a mora that garners active cooperation.

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Students are expected to sit there with their hands to themselves, demonstrate respect, and listen attentively.

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They're to contribute courageously, courteously, follow directions equally.

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Comply with the instructions immediately.

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They should walk and not run in the classroom.

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Maximize learning time.

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They should probably treat their classrooms with care.

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Arriving on time.

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Adhering to established rules of the Mora.

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Collaborate nicely.

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How many more can we think of?

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But this is the room.

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The Kita that lives in the Khaider.

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And there's a Mora there.

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Just imagine with me for a second.

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Seeing ourselves.

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Seeing the world.

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As we're all kindergarteners in this classroom.

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And Hashem is at the front, who's the teacher.

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The one giving us the orders for how he wants us to act in class.

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God does this.

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He tells us how to be good students.

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When we should pray.

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What we should eat.

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When snack time is.

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What we shouldn't eat.

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We shouldn't eat trafe.

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When we should offer sacrifices and have story time.

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When it's time to pick up a lemon and a stick.

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When it's time to drink some alcohol.

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I guess that doesn't really follow in our analogy here.

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But when it's time to clean the house for Pesach, all there are certain rules of the classroom that God is telling us.

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And the world's the big classroom.

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If you follow the rules, what happens when you follow the rules?

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You get good things.

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Extra recess.

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Maybe there's Mike and Nikes, Skittles, and Chocolate chips, candy as a reward for those that listen.

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But if you fail to follow the rules, there's detention.

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There could be timeout, a loss of recess.

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But always good behavior is rewarded with good stickers, candy, and greeds.

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But heaven forbid the opposite.

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And in our classroom of life, of course, good adherence to the rules of the teacher, good will be given.

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And heaven forbid the opposite.

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Now, of course, the goal is much loftier than to follow God's rules and observe the Sabbath.

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Not just so that you can get free candy or extra recess.

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Not just for the reward in the afterlife.

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Although that would still be commendable, but the goal is much loftier.

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But to listen to the teacher because you recognize that this is the best way to be a good student.

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This is the best way to internalize the education.

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And this is the best way to do well in life.

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You're preparing for life.

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And what the teacher says is not a rule, but actually the best way to maximize the opportunity that you've been given here.

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The same for Yiddish guide.

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It's our Tati, it's our daddy who's telling us the best way to live this experience that we call life.

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But there are some other rules of the classroom.

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Enter this week's parsha.

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Enter parsha's mishpatim.

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What are we, 22 or so weeks into the Torah?

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Enter stage right, the power side of the stage, where the superstar actors hang out until it's their turn.

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Enter Parsha Smashpatim ve'elaha mishpatim ashar tosim of naim.

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These are the rules that you shall set before them.

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These are guidelines.

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More than 50 mitzvos that are the teacher commanding the students, not how they should act in the classroom to pay attention in the best way, but rather how they should interact with their fellow students.

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These are guidelines, not being odom le teacher, but bein adom le chavero.

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All of parshast mishpatem.

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Most of it is about damages, borrowing, lending, theft, employer-employee obligations, bodily harm, negligence.

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How it is that when you steal your friend's Kit Kats, the Hull of Y Strull version, they should be repaid.

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How it is that you should deal with the kid in class that you don't see eye to eye with.

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How you should deal with the gare, the widow, the orphan, the poor.

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How you should understand that the new kid who just moved here from out of town doesn't have many friends, and that you should be friends with him because you too were a kid in Egypt who grew up not having any friends.

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So you could relate to him.

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You learned in our parsha all about how proper Jewish, Jewish prudence in Mishpat is had, following the majority, no favoritism, but dealing with friends and a very cordial, justice-like flow.

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The law is to be pure, straight, unbiased.

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If the teacher says keep your hands to yourself and don't touch Johnny, well then don't touch Johnny.

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And if you do steal Johnny's Twix, then maybe you need to pay him back too, so that you should learn your lesson.

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All of Parsha's Mishpatim, you can imagine it.

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As we continue through our analogy, that there's this laminated piece of paper on the wall in a classroom that would be the aila mishpatim.

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Listen when the teacher's talking, but listen when your friend is talking.

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Use kind words, be nice, hands to yourself, say please and thank you.

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Everything you'd imagine on the wall of a kindergarten school.

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When that's the way you look at Pashrash Mishpatim, it makes a lot of sense.

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You don't get confused by all the intricate laws of paying back four or five times the toastvasim and bhavakam above meets.

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If you should become confused by them when trying to understand Nezek, Shah, Riboy, Sheves, Ubozes, the ways that you pay back, when you realize that you're trying to deal with your friends in the same way that you would with how students would deal with each other in the classroom, trying to have this proper atmosphere, it makes sense.

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And as we understand that parsha's Mishpatim, it brings this new mitzvah of Bein Udumla Khaver to the forefront of the conversation and introduces really a new topic to the Torah.

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Everything before this was bin Udum La Makkum, and now Bein Adam La Khavero, the first Rashi of the Parsha, sings like a song.

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It sings like a beautiful rendition of the most glorious song.

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The Elaha Mishpatim.

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There's a Vav at the beginning of the Parsha.

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V' Elaha Mishpatim.

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Rashi says, Anytime you tell somebody these things, you're excluding what you've previously stated.

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Ala is puzzle us, harishonim.

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But ve'la Mishpatim says and these.

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The vav, ve'a and these, Mosif Al-Harishonim.

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That is adding, it's in addition to what was stated earlier.

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And what's the point?

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Ma harishonim misinai.

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Just like last week's Torah portion, all of the Ten Commandments, it all was from Sinai, delivered straight to us on a silver platter from up on high, witnessing the prophecy and understanding the Torah straight from the mouth of Hashem.

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Watching this entire production with our eyes.

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Also, Mishpatim is from Sinai, the Elaha Mishpatim.

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Now it would seem that there would have been this Hava Amina, this thought, this initial reaction, that for whatever reason somebody would have said that Pashish Mishpatim is not from Sinai.

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Why would anyone ever think that?

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Why would the initial reaction, the Hava Amina, be that Mishpatim is not from Sinai?

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Maybe we have a shot, maybe we have an understanding.

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When we understand that the Torah now is shifting into new gears, that how you're to deal with Hashem, of course that's from Sinai.

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But when Hashem, the teacher, gives us instructions about how to deal with our friends, maybe that's not from Sinai.

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Maybe those are pieces of advice.

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Maybe it's not on the same barometer.

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It doesn't have that same spiritual, powerfully different type of understanding.

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Says the Torah, Vi'elha Mishpatim, the forthcoming halachos, the conjures and myriads of laws that are about interpersonal relationships, af elumissinae.

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We now have a pshat.

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We have an understanding.

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And we're being corrected.

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Of course.

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No, don't ever think awry.

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Because how you deal in the classroom, even though it's not with the teacher, but it's with Johnny or Joshi who stole your stickers?

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That's also from Cena.

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You take it with the same intensity.

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Now, the goal is for us all to be honorable students.

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The goal is all for us to have ample chocolate chips, ample recess.

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Because we love our teacher, and we realize that's what's cool.

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What God does for us is for our best.

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But it does give us a new understanding.

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Just thinking about breaking the laws.

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If one, God forbid, drives recklessly, you know, we can kind of shrug it off and say, I'm late to work, I gotta go.

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But now picture it more like you're a parent of the kids down on earth.

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Picture it from up on high.

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Maybe be the teacher.

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And when Hashem said, don't punch, don't steal stickers.

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Wouldn't it be uncomfortable?

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Would it be upsetting for you?

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When you see the kids still going on to drive recklessly and hurt each other?

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Doesn't it start to make a little bit more sense when you understand the classroom?

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There's this big world that we're supposed to be learning from God and becoming better people and understanding things and earning extra recess, but when people are hurting and disrupting the classroom.

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When somebody I don't know, think of it as a kid.

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Think of it in high school terms or kindergarten terms.

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If some kid would come in in a more humble atmosphere with fancy clothing and a fancy car.

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Maybe in a way that makes others feel not contempt.

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Feel them feel themselves to be inadequate.

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They feel jealous, maybe.

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If you're the teacher, wouldn't you pick up on that?

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And wouldn't you want your students to be careful about that?

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When you think of life in this way, that there's this classroom, kids have this way of innocence.

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When you think of yourself as a kid down here, it always comes back to me, going off script here for a second, but it always comes back to me that when people get into a big fight about money, it's odd.

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Because it's like kids getting into a fight about their blocks that they fought, fight over because they had the red Lego first.

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When in truth, the whole thing is down here.

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One big experiment to see how you'll respond to somebody taking your blocks or how you will amass the most blocks in the most pleasant and happy and giving type of way.

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So when people lose track of the goal of the entire experiment of being kids in a classroom trying to learn the proper ways, experience them in a way that they can then respond in the way that God wants us to, but instead they get taken over with anger or enmity.

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Weird.

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But when you understand Prash Smeshpatam, you start to understand it when you understand it like a kindergartner in a classroom, you start to get Mishpatim.

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But here's what I really came here to say.

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There's more here.

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There's a breakthrough here.

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Praxis Mishpatam is a breakthrough because inside of a classroom, there are the rules that are set forth by the teacher.

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And then there are some extra rules.

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Not every kid has them.

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But some kids do.

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It's when a parent will bring their child in and whisper to the teacher that teacher, please be careful with my little one.

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He doesn't do well with taller kids.

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Or my son doesn't tolerate in his belly peanuts.

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Please be careful, he really doesn't like to sleep when the lights are on in the room.

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There have certain special needs, not in a bad way, but every child has their own requirements.

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Parents look out for them and they tell that to the Mora.

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But see people.

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Hakadash Barakhu, he's not just the teacher of everyone, he's also our parents.

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He's our Tati.

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Children of Israel are heirs and descendants of the teacher.

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And he knows each child's individual wants and needs.

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So when the Torah reveals itself and says lo Saanun, Lo Sikh Potes, Lo Tignov, Lo Sachmod, it's not just the teacher telling us the practical rules, but it's also the teacher teaching us what his kids don't like.

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You see, the revelation Rabbi Rucham shows us this week is that the Torah is not just godly wisdom, but it's godly wisdom for you to learn your fellow man as to what does your brethren enjoy and what does he not enjoy.

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People don't like to be kept waiting.

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People don't like when you charge them interest.

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It's a learning up of your friend's basic needs and desires.

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And the Torah wants you to study your friend, not just in a strict guidelines type of way, but to know what your friend's intricacies are.

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Does he not like it when you show up late?

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Does he not like red milk in his coffee?

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To get to know their what's really making them tick.

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The Torah wants you to learn them.

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Hashem reveals humankind's basic needs of how people can't tolerate peanut butter, and they really don't like to be spoken lash and hara about them.

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This is a lesson that we all need to hear.

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And we need to internalize it like kindergartners.

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Because most adults still haven't learned it from kindergarten.

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They never learned how to behave in the classroom, and they still have yet to learn how to interact with the teacher or the other children in the world, which is one big kindergarten classroom that Hashem is teaching us the laws, and he wants us to behave properly.

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And it's a therapy book, a mindfulness book of harsh ash mishpatem, of getting to know the wants, needs, ill wills, and disgruntling behaviors in the eyes of your friend.

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Show him compassion.

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Give him attention.

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If he's struggling on the way with his donkey, pull over on the side of I ninety five to help him load up his car again.

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Learn Parshas Mishpatim like it's a classroom and God is the teacher and we are the kindergartners and you're trying to have a good classroom experience and learn the lessons of what God wants and what your friends truly want, and it all comes to light.

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Whether you have a shvara toisvis in bhava kama, a shvara rashbah in bhava mitziya, a shvara ksize in khish and mishpat, the more you learn about what your friend wants and doesn't want, the more the tysvis and the kxis will become clear.

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Because the is revealing the wants and needs of your friends and how Johnny wants to be treated and how he doesn't want you to take his chocolate chips.

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If we keep this analogy alive, that God's the teacher at the front of the classroom, and all of us are children in the classroom, trying to have a good classroom atmosphere, that we all earn lunch, extra recess, toys and games, and realize that we're actually there to learn important lessons that will make our life better, and we want to listen because we actually love the teacher and he's there for us.

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If you keep this analogy alive in your mind, the leaning of Parshas Mishpatam will sing like a song to you and will flow effervescently and smoothly into your mind and into your consciousness with that much clarity.