Rabbi David Kaplan - Philosophy of Mitzvot: Rules of Court

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

and we are now on mitah number 80 number 77 which is the Mitzvah that a judge again another Mitzvah which sounds at first like it doesn't apply to us that much but you'll see that has very much Life Application um the judge is not allowed to decide a certain way in court uh simply because another judge decided that way whether you can't say well he said it so I'm going to say it too you have an obligation to understand the and and when you after you understand the Hal then to uh rule you have to understand what's going on in court you can't just rule because somebody else did that is what the that is the description that's the description of the of of of the Hal okay now of of the Mitzvah over here now uh included in this included in this is that uh um in in court um when they were there were two types of cases that were ruled there was case there's monetary law and there was capital offense now in monetary law the the judges sat in a semicircle and when they had to submit their decision so how would you logically start we want to hear from you and from you and from you how do you logically start to hear what everybody has to say so the judges sat in an order of expertise there was a ranking of the judges from top to bottom who is the greatest judge he's the head of the court and everybody has everybody has a ranking you you you have a certain ranking and uh like the 50 greatest basketball players in history but even

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