Ezra’s Ten Rules Part 6- The Beit Din
Posted by Torah Focus on 16 Dec 2008 at 12:00 am
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Midrashim – with Dr. Walter Oakley
Tuesdays on ARBA4
Program #46 – Ezra’s Ten Rules Part 6- The Beit Din
The Men of the Great Assembly, who were they and how did they help in the
reforms of Ezra. The Artscroll commentary to the book of Ezra and Mishnah
describe the Men of the Great Assembly the “Court of Ezra” (Ezra’s beit
din). I discuss Ezra as the head of the Beit Din – Sanhedrin of his time.
I also discuss the possibility of Ezra as the Chronicler. I move into the
Mishnah “Perke Avot” as means of seeing what the “Men of the Great Assembly”
promoted in their time. I discuss how these things dovetail into the tiknot
of Ezra.
