Rabbi Peretz Moncharsh
Rabbi Peretz Moncharsh was born and raised in Minneapolis, MN and learned in the Yeshivos of Philadelphia, Brisk- R Dovid, Mir and Kollel La’asukei Shmaytsa. He currently lives in Beitar and is a Moreh Horaah on both the Ashkenazi and Sefardi Batei Horaah as well as the Rosh Kollel of Kollel Shaarei Horaah. Rabbi Moncharsh received Semicha from R’ Zalman Nechemia Goldberg, R’ Yaakov Tufik (the Sefaradi Rav of Beitar) and the Rabbanut.
Course Curriculum
Chapter 1
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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