How a Judge Experiences Yom HaDin ft. Jeremy Rovinsky

<p>Jeremy Rovinsky is a full time United States immigration judge, an associate justice for multiple Native American courts of appeals, a law professor at Crest Point University, and Dean of Teachers for the Tikvah Foundation&#39;s Millstone Scholars Program. He&#39;s also a baal teshuva who took his judicial oath on the Chovos HaLevavos.</p><p>Jeremy spends his days behind the bench. This week he brings that lens to the Yamim Noraim: what <em>din</em> really means, why <em>teshuva</em> is recalibration and not erasure, and what it&#39;s like to approach <em>Hakadosh Baruch Hu </em>as the ultimate judge when you know exactly what it feels like to sit in the chair.</p><p>In this episode:</p><ul><li>Going from philosophy major to talmid of Rav Gershenfeld at Machon Shlomo</li><li>Why his Rebbe told him to stay in law, not switch to kiruv</li><li>The Zohar&#39;s read on Lech Lecha: bring your past with you, don&#39;t leave it behind</li><li>Why the Sanhedrin required judges to have children (and what that teaches about rachmanus)</li><li>Justice as love, not just din, and why that changed how he saw his own docket</li><li>What Jeremy says to the God of Israel these days, now that he&#39;s not the prosecutor anymore</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Subscribe, leave a five star review, and check out the newsletter at <a href="shtaktank.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">shtarktank.org</a> for more unfiltered thoughts on Torah, family, and life.</p><p></p>