BAIS HAVAAD ON THE PARSHA PARSHAS YISRO 5773 APPEALING A PSAK DIN

In this week's parshah, Yisro advised Moshe to establish a system of judges comprising "rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens".[1] What was the rationale behind this; what was the difference in roles of the various "rulers"? The Sforno explains that this was a hierarchal appellate system: a case would originally be heard by a first-level judge; an appeal would go to the next level, then to the third, then to the fourth, and only a minority of cases would ultimately reach Moshe himself.[2] This week's journal will focus on the halachos of reviewing a Beis Din verdict. PRINT SUMMARY HERE.