שופטים ושוטרים תתן לך בכל שעריךאשר ה' אלוקיך נותן לך לשבטך
Place judges and guards at all of your gates that Hashem has given to you according to your tribes.
The second Djikover Rebbe (a grשndson of Naftoli N'Rupshitz) in his Imrei Noam offers a penetrating insight based on this verse.
We know that Chazal say that a person would never be able to beat the Yetzer Hara if it were not for Hashem's help. The Evil Inclination is a heavenly angel and we are mere flesh and blood. We need G-d's help. Therefore a person may come to say that if he did in fact sin it must be because Hashem wasn't there protecting him and thus he is absolved of guilt.
But we know the famous teaching of the Ba'al Shem Tov: Chazal say that a Bas Kol, a Heavenly voice emanates from Har Sinai everyday calling upon us to do Teshuva. Have you heard it? Do you know anyone who has? So if no one hears it what good is it? The Ba'al Shem Taught that the Hirhurei Teshuva, the passing thoughts and seconds guesses that make us think twice before we we do the wrong thing are that Bas Kol. That we hear all the time
That is one facet of the support that Hashem gives us in our war against the evil inclination. That voice in our heads tempting us to think it over - that nudge echoes from Sinai.
Says the Djikover, this is all found in our Passuk.
שופטים ושוטרים תתן לך
Judgement will be placed on everyone
בכל שעריךאשר ה' אלוקיך נותן לך
For all of the gates that Hashem has given to you.
What are gates? In the world of the Tzadikim, gates always represent Teshuva, an escape plan, a way out.
These gates are the Hirhurei Teshuva from Har Sinai.
לשבטך
The word Shevet means tribe, but it also means staff,
He gives you these thoughts as a pole to hold onto, to be pulled out of the strom of the fight with the Yetzer Hara.
We are going to be held responsible for not listening to that voice in the back of our heads that was there to pull us out. We cannot simply claim that Hashem has abandonded us, for He never has and He never will.
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