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Chapter thirteen of Ketuboth is organized differently from the other chapters of Ketuboth, or for that matter, differently from most of the Mishnah. Instead of being organized topically, it is organized mostly according to the slayings of two judges who lived in Jerusalem during the Second Temple period: Admon and Hanan ben Avishalom.
There are a number of restrictions placed on judges - should their judgments be valid:
they cannot borrow from anyone whom they will judge
they cannot lend to anyone whom they will judge
they cannot judge those whom they love
they cannot judge those whom they hate
One of the cases involves a man who brings a basket of fish to Rav Anan. Upon learning that the man is requesting him to reside over a court case, Rav Anan refuses the basket and says that he is disqualified from residing over the man's case.
We explore judicial bribery as well as shura deyyane in Israeli law and the famous US Massey case…