CSI Babylonia: Investigating Talmudic Justice
Hosted By: The Florence Melton School of Adult Jewish Learning
This session examines how ancient Jewish courts evaluated evidence and pursued justice in cases without eyewitness testimony, using methods that range from circumstantial reasoning to judicial intuition. Rabbi Hillel Lichtman leads a deep dive into biblical, Talmudic, and post-Talmudic sources that debate the admissibility of physical or forensic evidence and the role of a judge’s insight when facts are ambiguous. Through this exploration, participants will encounter a legal tradition that is both methodical and imaginative in its search for truth.
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