Reply To: Dvar Torah Acharei Mos – Preaching Without Practicing

And the Midrash laments, “Woe to the generation that judges its judges.” The Gemara explains that when the judge would say, “Remove a splinter from between your teeth,” the accused would say, “First remove the beam from between your eyes” (Bava Basra 15b).
Both things were occurring. The people judged the judges and were not mekabel thier words and the judges were worse than the people themselves. That is a way that the chazal can be understood. We see that even though the judges were perhaps hypocrites, the people are still wrong for judging them -d`hynu, not listening to them. Yes, a chiddush and not how we all were taught. see if it fits into the words of chazal.