Musar su Deuteronomio 16:18

שופטים ושוטרים תתן לך בכל שעריך . We find an allusion here to the moral imperative quoted in the ספר יצירה that there are seven gateways to the soul (נפש). They are: The two eyes, the two ears, the mouth, and the two nostrils. Thus far the ספר יצירה. Only the gateways that are in man's head have been mentioned here. There are, however, two more "gateways," namely the opening from which seminal fluid is emitted, and the opening from which we excrete. Man has to guard these openings with extreme care. This "care" extends to what he sees with his eyes, what he hears with his ears, what he says with his mouth, and the anger that he lets escape from his nostrils. He also must exercise careful control over the gateway from the site of the Holy Covenant with G–d, making sure that any seminal fluid which he emits serves a sacred purpose. He must also ensure that he does not unnecessarily fill up the opening from which he excretes, as only animals keep on eating for the sake of eating, heedless of the amount of filth and vomit they accumulate within their bodies. In short, these are the שערים, gates of his body, that man must watch over like a judge and law enforcement officer. This is the reason the Torah added the words תתן לך, "place for yourself" in the opening verse of our portion.

Commandment 491 provides for judges to be appointed in every community, for the Torah writes (16,18): "You shall appoint magistrates and law enforcement officers for your tribes in all the settlements, etc."

And in Tanchuma, on the verse (Devarim 16:18): "And they shall judge the people [with] a righteous judgment": R. Yehuda b. R. Shalom said: 'They should "incline" [judgment] and impute merit to them before the Holy One Blessed be He. From whom do we learn this? From Gideon the son of Yoash, in whose days Israel was [steeped] in suffering, and the Holy One Blessed be He sought a man who would impute merit to them and could not find one, the generation being poor in mitzvoth and in [virtuous] deeds. When merit was found in Gideon, who imputed merit to them, immediately the angels appeared to him, as it is written (Judges 6:11): 'And an angel of the L-rd came' [to Gideon] … and (Ibid. 14): '…and He said: "Go, with this your strength and save Israel, etc."', with this strength of your having imputed merit to My children, this being the thrust of 'And they shall judge the people [with] a righteous judgment, that they shall impute merit to the generation.'" From all of this, we can understand the eminence of one who "imputes merit," before the Holy One Blessed be He. And he [Gideon] afterwards became the chariot for the light of the holy sanctuary, which was called "the sanctuary of merit," where the merits of Israel were brought to remembrance, as we find in Sefer Charedim.