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B it is day number 313 of our daily
study of RA mitz and in the three
chapters ofday study track of M we are
beginning a new book safer schaim the
Book of Judges which is all about jurist
prudence and this is the 14th of 14
volumes of Misha so we we are in the
home stretch as I mentioned today is day
313 there are 339 days total of the
three chapters of day study track of
Misha which corresponding to that
we have 339 days of studying saam
Mitzvah so that's uh 26 days left until
we have our until we celebrate
completing all of the Mitzvah and then
we will start again back from the
beginning with God's help okay so um the
first section ofas
in is has a long title actually it's hus
sanedrin Hamin
the laws of Sanhedrin Sanhedrin is the
high court or Supreme Court and the
punishments that are given over to them
meaning the punishments that they have
the jurisdiction to administer that's
the name of these Alas and today we're
studying chapters 1 2 and three in the
three chapters ofday study track of
Misha we have today three Mitzvah
positive commandment 176 the first one
and that is the Mitzvah to create create
a system of jurist
prudence um you may
recognize these words from a Torah
portion which is entitled
shim which means judges which is the
same name as this
book and these words are like
this judges and
officers you should place for yourself
in all of your Gates that means that
there has to be a system of law of
judges and officers who can enforce the
law in every place where Jews live and
this is an elaborate system
that dictates that there should be
certain sizes of Courts based on certain
sizes of
communities and all the way up to the
highest Court in Judaism which is the
Sanhedrin which we mentioned before in
fact it's in the name of the title of
these of this section that we're
learning right now and that high court
is the high court of 71 judges 70 judges
plus the Nai the president who presides
over the Sanhedrin and that is located
in the b mikdash in the Holy Temple
Ines in the holy city of Jerusalem
negative commandment 284 is the
prohibition against appointing an
unqualified
judge a person may have other qualities
that you admire maybe even they are
genuinely admirable qualities but that's
not
relevant you can only appoint a judge
who is competent in the law that's his
job is to know Torah law that's the
Criterion okay don't appoint an
unqualified judge positive commandment
175 is the Mitzvah to abide by majority
rule this has a couple of applications
one it's talking about the system of of
determining Jewish law when you have as
often happens A diversity of rinic
opinions legitimate authentic ribonic
opinions so how do we determine what
what the final ruling is that we can
that we that we have to
follow um you know like when you learn
gamada for instance the tal so you'll
have many different opinions but then
when you learn when you learn Jewish law
we're going to follow one opinion so how
do we know which opinion to follow that
that that's by majority decision okay
and also the other application is in a
case of litigation now you remember we
learned I maybe it was a week or two ago
we were
learning laws of claims and counter
claims of litigation so again if
litigation goes before a panel of rabbis
Rabbi judges so the ruling should follow
the majority of opinions those are our
mitzvah for today we will see you for
more tomorrow God willing
