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I am disqualified to judge for you, because I may be partial to you due to what you’ve done for me. Rav said to Rav Kahana: Go out and judge the case. Rav Kahana saw that Rav’s host was acting haughtily due to his relationship with Rav, as he presumed that Rav Kahana was predisposed to favor him. R
§ The Talmud continues to interpret clauses from the verse cited above. “You shall hear the small and the great alike” (Deuteronomy 1:17). Reish Lakish says: This teaches that the judgment of one peruta should be as dear, i.e., important, to you as the judgment of 100 maneh, i.e., 10,000 dinars.
The Talmud continues the interpretation of the verse: “You shall not be afraid before any man.” R' Ḥanan says: Do not suppress your statement of opinion due to any person. The verse continues: “For the judgment is God’s.” R' Ḥama, son of R' Ḥanina, says: God says: It is not enough for the wicked ju
The verse continues: “And the cause that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.” R' Ḥanina, and some say R' Yoshiya, says: On account of this matter, which displayed a degree of presumptuousness, Moses was punished, as it is stated: “And Moses brought their cause before YH
Rather, the unusual manner in which the halakha of women’s inheritance (see Numbers, chapter 27) was revealed may be understood as it is taught in a baraita: It would have been fitting for the Torah portion about inheritances to have been written by attributing it to Moses, our teacher, i.e., to i