Majority Rule: How to Study Torah - Mishpatim
Exodus 23:2 teaches us, among many other important legal principles, that we must follow the majority in a dispute between judges. What other axioms of Jewish law do we learn from this verse?
| Topics: | Judiciary; Judges, Law; Jurisprudence, Parshah, Mishpatim |
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