THE RABBI AS ARBITER

Notes

1. On this see Boaz Cohen , Jewish and Roman Law, Vol. 2, New York , pp. 651ff. 2. M. Sanhedrin 3.1f.

3. According to Asher Gulak, Yesodei HeMisina Halvri, Vol IV, Jerusalem , 1923, p. 30, the creation of this type of court, technically called a beth din shel bor'rim, was devised by R. Meir in response to the repression of Hadrian who enacted a series of measures to restrict Jewish autonomy

4. M. Sanhedrin 3.1 5. Ibid. 3.1

6. J. Sanhedrin 3.1(21a). The translation is by Jacob Neusner in The Talmud of Jerusalem : A Preliminary Translation and Explanation, Vol 31, Chicago , 1984, pp. 96-97.

7. Hoshen Mishpat 12.2; See also Elliot Dorff and Arthur Rosett, A Living Tree: The Roots and Growth of Jewish Law, Albany, 1988, p. 294.

8. Asher Gulak, op. cit., p. 26.

9.“At different times and in different countries of the Diaspora, arbitration continued to serve as a substitute for judicial autonomy, in particular where such autonomy had been weakened.” Menahem Elon,“Arbitration” in EJ, Jerusalem , 1972, Vol. 3, p. 295.

10. Zechariah 8.16. 11. B. Sanhedrin 6b; translation based on Neusner , op. cit., p. 292. 12. B. Sanhedrin 5b; translation based on Neusner , op. cit, p. 293.

13. Otzar HaShatarot HaNehugim BeYisrael, Jerusalem , 1926. A selection of these are presented in translation in Dorff, op. cit., pp. 295-298.

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