"When Hashem commanded Moshe to write….."

 ‘When Hashem commanded Moshe to write the parsha of the ‘wayward and rebellious son’ and his fate, in the Torah, Moshe understood that there is no such eventuality in the world, as what father would bring his son to the Bet Din, for him to be killed.

‘He therefore perceived that the whole parsha of the ‘wayward and rebellious son’, was an allusion to Israel who are ‘sons to Hashem, and, as they are destined to transgress, Hashem will judge them by the judgement of ‘the wayward and rebellious son’.

‘Moshe, therefore, asked Hashem not to write the parsha in the Torah; at that time, Hashem directed the Angel of the Torah, to reveal to Moshe, how to expound the psukim for the benefit of Israel.

‘If a man will have’:this alludes to Hakadosh-Baruch-Hu, who is called ‘man’: 

Hashem is a MAN of war’; 

‘a son’: Israel who are called ‘sons to Hashem’; 

‘who is wayward and rebellious’: who has strayed from the laws of Hashem; 

‘who does not hearken to the voice of his father and the voice of his mother’: the voice of Hashem, our father, and the voice of the shechina, ‘the mother of the clal Israel;

’and they discipline him’: he is rebuked by the Prophets, with words of mussar; 

‘but he does not hearken to them’:and persisted in his bad ways; 

‘then his father and mother shall grasp him’: Hashem and the shechina;

’and take him to the elders of the city and the gate of his place’: to be judged before the Heavenly Bet Din.

‘They shall say to the elders of his city:This son of ours is wayward and rebellious; he does not hearken to our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard’:

these words are intended to teach zechut for Israel, as what caused them to be ‘wayward and rebellious’,

 is being in galut, amongst the nations that chase the delights of gluttony, and thereby cause Israel to learn from their ways.

‘Therefore, the Torah writes:’’And the men of his city shall pelt him with stones, and he shall die’: meaning: instead of Hashem pouring His wrath on Israel, He pours it on Jerusalem and the Bet Hamikdash, and ‘all the men of his city’: the populace amongst whom Israel are in galut, ‘Will pelt him with stones’: Alluding to Jerusalem, and the stones by which they brought down the walls, and destroyed the Temple, and this will be deemed as if Israel were killed, ‘and you shall remove the evil from your midst; and all of Israel shall hear and they shall fear’.

‘When Moshe heard this exposition from the Angel, he agreed to the parsha being written in the Torah.’

From Parshas Ki Tetse of Reb Daniel Ginsbourg