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Dayanus
Chapter 1
Lesson One: Learning to become a judge by Torah Law
Lesson Two: Learning to become a judge by Torah Law
Lesson Three: Appointment of Dayanim
Lesson Four: The Authority of Judge’s Today
Lesson Five: Appointing judges
Lesson Six: Choosing a Dayan
Lesson Seven: How many comprise a Bais Din
Lesson Eight: How Many Comprise comprise a Beis Din
Lesson 9: Exacting Judgment for Oneself
Lesson 10: Days Beis Din Meets
Lesson 11: Court Hearing Days
Lesson 12: During What Hours of the Day Do Courts Judge Cases?
Lesson 13: The Minimum ClaimThat Can Be Brought to Beis Din
Lesson 14: Who Can and Cannot Be a Dayan
Lesson 15: Who Can and Cannot Be a Dayan
Lesson 16: Who Can and Cannot Be a Dayan
Lesson 17: When a Dayan loves or hates a litigant
Lesson 18: When Two Dayanim Hate One Another
Lesson 19: The Characteristics of a Dayan
Lesson 20: Disqualification from Judging
Lesson 21: Appointing a Dayan
Test 1: Lessons 1-21
Chapter 2
Lesson 22: The Acceptable Behavior of a Dayan toward his Job
Lesson 23: Powers of a Messenger and the Dinim of Bribery
Lesson 24: Dayanim are Forbidden to Take Bribery *Providing Dayanim a Livelihood
Lesson 25: A Dayan is Forbidden to Take Bribery; His Right to Accept Compensation For Lost Work Time
Lesson 26: A Dayan’s Talmidim Non-Monetary Bribery
Lesson 27: Summons to Beis Din
Lesson 28: How to Summon to Beis Din & Who can issue the Summons
Lesson 29: Until When Can a Dayan Withdraw from Litigation? The Overpowering!
Lesson 30: Compromise and Forgiveness
Lesson 31: Not to Use Ploys to Extort a Compromise
Lesson 32: The Effects of Compromise and Kinyan
Lesson 33: The Laws of Compromise and Mechila
Lesson 34: A Compromise that includes a Fine and that makes it Binding
Lesson 35: Mechila on an Obligation to Swear an Oath * Must the Decision in Compromise be Unanimous? * A Security Deposit in Place of a Kinyan
Lesson 36: The Great Preference for Compromise
Lesson 37: When the Litigants Do Not Agree on the Dayanim
Lesson 38: When the Litigants Do Not Agree on the Dayanim
Lesson 39: When the Litigants Do Not Agree on the Dayanim and the Writing of the Claims
Lesson 40: The Litigants Disagreeing and Disqualifying One’s Opponent’s Choice of a Dayan
Lesson 41: * When the Litigants Want More Dayanim than Usual * Taking Litigation to Expert Dayanim Out of Town
Lesson 42: * Taking Litigation to Expert Dayanim Out of Town * Writing Greater Experts for Advice * Starting the Appeals Process
Lesson 43: Taking Litigation Out of Town
Lesson 44: * Taking Litigation Out of Town * Writing Greater Experts for Advice
Lesson 45: * If a Litigant Suspects a Dayan ofUnfairness * Starting the Appeal Process
Lesson 46: * If a Litigant Suspects a Dayan ofUnfairness * Starting the Appeal Process * Compensation for Travel and Court Expense
Lesson 47: * Compensation for Travel and Court Expenses *Litigation Brought to Non-Jewish Courts
Lesson 48: Executing a Claim for Reimbursement for “Forcing Costs”
Lesson 49: Reimbursement for Mental Anguish? The Cases that Beis Din Decides First“Forcing Costs”
Test 2: Lessons 22-49
Chapter 3
Lesson 50: The Cases that Beis Din Decides First
Lesson 51: The Cases that Beis Din Decides First
Lesson 52: When a Dayan Knows or Suspects that the Case before Him Contains a Hidden Element of Deception Deciding Litigation without Clear Proof
Lesson 53: When a Dayan Knows or Suspects that the Case before Him Contains a Hidden Element of Deception Deciding Litigation without Clear Proof
Lesson 54: Giving a Claimant Time to Substantiate His Claim When a Claimant Says, “I have no proof”
Lesson 55: Giving a Litigant Time to Substantiate His Claim, Cherem for All Who Withhold Written Evidence
Lesson 56: When Someone Claims, “A shtar in your hands contains financial benefit for me” When Someone Claims, “The shtar that you want to use against me is counterfeit”
Lesson 57: When someone asks to see a copy of a Shtar that is about to be used against him
Lesson 58: *Treating the Litigants Equally in Every Respect * Seating the Litigants and Witnesses
Lesson 59: When One Litigant Faces Many Opponents A Litigant Shall Not Speak to the Dayan unless the Other Litigant is Present When a Talmid Chacham Comes before His Rav for Litigation against an Unlearned Person
Lesson 60: When a Dayan Writes His Opinion before the Litigation A Dayan Must Not Hear Litigation through an Interpreter The Dayan Must Repeat the Claims of the Litigants
Lesson 61: A Dayan Must Not Practice “Advocacy” To What Extent May a Dayan Assist a Litigant
Lesson 62: A Dayan Must Not Show Favoritism to the Rich or Poor A Dayan Must Not Drag out the Proceeding
Lesson 63: The Dayan’s Conduct if a Litigant Claims Less than His Due
Lesson 64: The Dayan’s Conduct if a Litigant Claims Less than His Due Following the Majority in Judgment
Lesson 65: Following the Majority in Judgment
Lesson 66: The Least Senior Dayan Starts the Deliberations Following the Majority in Judgment
Lesson 67: Monetary Disputes that End in a Stalemate An Undecided Dayan Does Not Explain His Doubt, When the Third Dayan Bows Out
Lesson 68: On a Beis Din, Can a Rabbi and His Disciple be Counted as Two Votes? The Verdict in Money Cases Can be Pronounced not in the Presence of the Loser
Lesson 69: Why in Money Cases the Senior Dayan Pronounces the Verdict After the Verdict, No Dayan Shall Reveal how He or the Others Voted What to Write When a Litigant Wants a Written Statement of the Decision
Lesson 70: If a claimant who fails to win his claim lodges it elsewhere When the accused is found liable but does not pay
Lesson 71: Re-opening a case that was already decided
Test 3: Lessons 50-71
Chapter 4
Lesson 72: When a litigant promises to return to Beis Din by a certain date, saying that if he fails to return he will forfeit his rights and lose the litigation
Lesson 73: A commitment to accept as a Dayan or witness someone that the law disqualifies
Lesson 74: A Commitment to accept as a Dayan or Witness someone that the law disqualifies
Lesson 75: A commitment to accept as a Dayan or witness someone that the law disqualifies A commitment to accept a gentileas a witness or Dayan
Lesson 76: A commitment to accept a “second-class” oath
Lesson 77: A Commitment to accept a “second-class” oath The ability to retract other commitments made in Beis Din
Lesson 78: Retaining the ability to reverse Rabbinic oaths
Lesson 79: An offer to “reverse” a Torah oath
Lesson 80: Until when is a lone Dayan believed to say which litigant won the case? Shuda -- A decision not based on claims
Lesson 81
Lesson 82: When a lone Pashran writes a shtar p’shara, issues it and afterwards makes claims as to what he mean
Lesson 83: The claimant’s right to get justice first if the accused makes a counterclaim against him * Instances where the counterclaim is judged simultaneously
Lesson 84: Laws of a Dayan who makes a mistaken ruling Mistakes that are judgmental, not factual When the result is irreversible damage
Lesson 85: Laws of a Dayan who makes a mistaken ruling Are rulings of the Gaonim like rulings of the Gemara? Examples of “obvious” errors
Lesson 86: Laws about mistaken rulings Errors of Dayanim of varying caliber and authority
Lesson 87: Laws about mistaken ruling
Lesson 88: More on Errors in Shikul Hadaas
Lesson 89: A Dayan who is not fit to judge and the laws of a compromise based on an erroneous ruling
Lesson 90: The prohibition against bringing a case before a non-Jewish court
Lesson 91: Permission to bring a case before a non-Jewish court
Lesson 92: When both sides agree to bring their case before a non-Jewish court
Lesson 93: The prohibition again cursing and its laws
Dayanus final test
Lesson 78: Retaining the ability to reverse Rabbinic oaths
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