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Why does the Torah (תורה) require judges to be especially deliberate even in routine cases? The shiur develops that most disputes arise when decent people see situations only from their own perspective, creating the fundamental wickedness that destroys relationships. True judgment requires listening "between" litigants to discover objective truth beyond subjective viewpoints.
The shiur explores the Torah (תורה)'s commandment that judges must be deliberate in judgment (hedai mesunim badin) even in cases they've seen many times before. Rabbi Zweig asks why this special obligation exists for judges when doctors, dealing with life-and-death matters, aren't given similar explicit warnings about being careful with routine cases. The answer reveals a fundamental insight about the nature of disputes and human relationships. The core teaching emerges from analyzing why the Mishna in Avos instructs judges to view both litigants as reshaim (wicked) in their eyes. This seems to contradict the principle of chezkas kashrus - presuming people righteous until proven otherwise. The shiur explains that most civil disputes don't involve criminals, but rather decent people who trusted each other enough to marry or enter business partnerships together.
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