Is Common Sense Kosher? - Rabbi Mordechai Becher Shlita

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cultur shim good evening and welcome everyone those who are here in person and those who are here virtually as well so you may have heard of a very famous statement in the SM one of the commentaries on the shulhan C Jewish law in h where it talks about the laws of jurist prudence so it says the following we know that the minimum for a basin Jewish know that the minimum for a basin Jewish court is three judges three judges it's a minimum but the says the following says even though a court of three is a complete Court kman if there is more that is actually better because you will get a greater range of Minds focused on the idea a greater Minds focused on the idea a greater range of opinions and consequently there will be a greater clarification of the in fact it'd be better to have 11 than to have 10 in the den and it goes on to say and this I guess is obvious that all those who are in the Basin should be appropriate Torah Scholars who know the makes sense and Scholars who know the makes sense and then he says this it is prohibited for a scholar to sit in judgment with a basin unless he knows who is on the Basin if he doesn't know the other members of The Basin he should not sit on that Bas lest he sit in a court with people Bas lest he sit in a court with people who are inappropriate he is then included in what we call a meeting of Bo him I guess uh rebs against the Torah Bas that's not really a Bas in it's not a quot this makes sense makes sense we understand this and then the SM famous commentary onb says the following if you will listen to my

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