Image via WikipediaIn the Torah, for a judge to rule and then set aside the rule and mediate is a dishonor to the law.
Matthew 5:25 Come to terms quickly with your opponent while you are on the way to court, or your opponent may hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you will be thrown into prison.
26 Truly I tell you, you will not get out of there until you pay back the last penny!” ISV
Why does Yahoshua teach this? Does he seek to warn us against the Courts of the Torah? Rather, he teaches one and the same thing as when he says that The Torah must be upheld in all until the world is no more - and then it will remain but there will be no more need of courts - for all will live within its ways forever.
In Sanhedrin 6b the emphasis is on the virtual blaspheme of a judge who would set aside a ruling after it is given to find a compromise. In Yahoshua's teaching the way of peace through volunteer effort at settlement is contrasted to the peace which comes by settlement through the strict justice of the court. Furthermore, negotiated or mediated settlement is placed where it belongs in the preferable place, as in the new covenant as foretold by Jeremiah when all will make peace with one another willingly from the new Godly heart - but it is given this preferred place only when pursued before the case goes to court. After that there is according to Yahoshua and according to the Talmud, no going back. For it is not possible that the Torah be dishonored.
Matthew 5:25 Come to terms quickly with your opponent while you are on the way to court, or your opponent may hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you will be thrown into prison.
26 Truly I tell you, you will not get out of there until you pay back the last penny!” ISV
Why does Yahoshua teach this? Does he seek to warn us against the Courts of the Torah? Rather, he teaches one and the same thing as when he says that The Torah must be upheld in all until the world is no more - and then it will remain but there will be no more need of courts - for all will live within its ways forever.
In Sanhedrin 6b the emphasis is on the virtual blaspheme of a judge who would set aside a ruling after it is given to find a compromise. In Yahoshua's teaching the way of peace through volunteer effort at settlement is contrasted to the peace which comes by settlement through the strict justice of the court. Furthermore, negotiated or mediated settlement is placed where it belongs in the preferable place, as in the new covenant as foretold by Jeremiah when all will make peace with one another willingly from the new Godly heart - but it is given this preferred place only when pursued before the case goes to court. After that there is according to Yahoshua and according to the Talmud, no going back. For it is not possible that the Torah be dishonored.
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