Oct 23, 2026 · 18 min · 9 segments
1\. Taking pay to examine bechoros 2\. We learn הנוטל שכרו לדון (מה אני בחנם אף אתם בחנם / taking a fee to do הזאה) 3\. Purchasing from someone suspected regarding bechoros, shemittah, or terumah
Okay, so with that context, the Mishnah says, if a judge takes a wage from the different parties beforehand to judge them, It is invalid.
Similarly, if somebody takes money to testify, his testimony is worthless.
To sprinkle the water of the red heifer on a tummy person, to purify them from tumaviklops, and to mix the paradumah ashes with spring water, Then in those cases, the waters are like waters taken from a cave or just completely worthless, parcel water.
And these ashes are also completely worthless ashes.
And the person who has summoned you, let's say you're a judge, or you're a witness, and somebody needs you, they call you over, and they call you through a route that requires you to go where there's Tumah, mitam ehu mitrumato, right? And through the person requesting that you come over to them, and there's no other path to go except through this tumma path, you become tammi.
Therefore, that person by calling you, this isn't when you've been doing it for a wage, it's just in general, if they call you to do this, you've lost now as a koin, because when you were taho, you could eat tumma, which is really cheap for a koin.
Now you're tammi, you have to eat regular produce, which is more expensive.
Therefore, the person who has summoned you over needs to pay your food expenses, right? But that is not considered paying a wage.
Even though we just said you can't pay a wage, in this little case, you can pay the person's expenses.
You can cover their costs.
And if the person was an elderly person, you can send over a taxi, right? Send over a donkey to give them a ride.
And in all of these cases, you can pay the person as a worker.
You can't pay them as a judge or as a witness, etc.
But you can pay them as somebody, like the opportunity cost for the work that they could have done at home.
It's a slight, we'll discuss this, but you can pay them for the money lost by not being at work.
Right? Similar to miluim.
The person's, how much you pay the person for being a miluim is how much they'll be getting at work.
How do we know that you can't pay somebody to judge? Moshe says in, I think it's Farshad Tivarim, see, that, I've taught you different laws as Hashem has commanded me.
I learned them for free, so too you, so Hashem commanded I teach them for free, so too you have to teach others for free.
Good.
Just like me, Moshe, Hashem told me to teach for free, you also have to teach for free.
If you are the learner and nobody will teach you for free, How do we know that you still have to pay people to teach you? And how do we know that you shouldn't say, just like I learned it by paying a tutor, therefore when I'm now teaching it, I can get paid? You should buy it, but you shouldn't sell it.
Okay, so with that context, the Mishnah says, if a judge takes a wage from the different parties beforehand to judge them, It is invalid.
Similarly, if somebody takes money to testify, his testimony is worthless.
To sprinkle the water of the red heifer on a tummy person, to purify them from tumaviklops, and to mix the paradumah ashes with spring water, Then in those cases, the waters are like waters taken from a cave or just completely worthless, parcel water.
And these ashes are also completely worthless ashes.
And the person who has summoned you, let's say you're a judge, or you're a witness, and somebody needs you, they call you over, and they call you through a route that requires you to go where there's Tumah, mitam ehu mitrumato, right? And through the person requesting that you come over to them, and there's no other path to go except through this tumma path, you become tammi.
Therefore, that person by calling you, this isn't when you've been doing it for a wage, it's just in general, if they call you to do this, you've lost now as a koin, because when you were taho, you could eat tumma, which is really cheap for a koin.
Now you're tammi, you have to eat regular produce, which is more expensive.
Therefore, the person who has summoned you over needs to pay your food expenses, right? But that is not considered paying a wage.
Even though we just said you can't pay a wage, in this little case, you can pay the person's expenses.
You can cover their costs.
And if the person was an elderly person, you can send over a taxi, right? Send over a donkey to give them a ride.
And in all of these cases, you can pay the person as a worker.
You can't pay them as a judge or as a witness, etc.
But you can pay them as somebody, like the opportunity cost for the work that they could have done at home.
It's a slight, we'll discuss this, but you can pay them for the money lost by not being at work.
Right? Similar to miluim.
The person's, how much you pay the person for being a miluim is how much they'll be getting at work.
How do we know that you can't pay somebody to judge? Moshe says in, I think it's Farshad Tivarim, see, that, I've taught you different laws as Hashem has commanded me.
I learned them for free, so too you, so Hashem commanded I teach them for free, so too you have to teach others for free.
Good.
Just like me, Moshe, Hashem told me to teach for free, you also have to teach for free.
If you are the learner and nobody will teach you for free, How do we know that you still have to pay people to teach you? And how do we know that you shouldn't say, just like I learned it by paying a tutor, therefore when I'm now teaching it, I can get paid? You should buy it, but you shouldn't sell it.
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