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Tosefta Rosh Hashanah
*In connection with the conflict between Rabban Gamaliel and Rabbi Yehoshua as to the reliability of two witnesses who testified regarding the new moon, the Mishnah (R.H. 2:9), quotes Ex. 24:9, which states, "Then Moses and Aaron, Nadava and Avihu, and seventy of the Elders of Israel ascended." The Mishnah then asks, "Why were the names of the 'Elders' not mentioned?" and answers that it is "To teach that each and every set of three [judges] who convened a court of law over Israel, behold, it is like the Beit Din of Moses." The Tosefta now asks the same same question, but provides a different answer.Why were the names of the 'Elders' not mentioned? So that not each and every person would say, "Behold, I am coming to compare Rabbi So-and-So with Eldad and Medad (Num. 11:26)," or "Behold, I am coming to compare Rabbi So-and-So with Nadav and Avihu (Lev. 10:1-2)." And thus it says (1 Sam. 12:6), "The Lord who appointed (lit., 'made') Moses and Aaron." and it says (1 Sam. 12:11), "And the Lord sent Jerubbaal and Bedan and Jephthah and Samuel." Jerubbaal -- that is Gideon. Bedan -- that is Samson. Jephthah -- as it sounds (i.e., that is his real name). And it says (Ps. 99:6), "Moses and Aaron among His priests[, and Samuel, among those who call His name]." Scripture thus compares three light ones of the world (Jerubbaal, Bedan, and Jephthah), with three great ones of the world (Moses, Aaron, and Samuel), to teach you that the Beit Din of Jerubbaal before the Place is like the Beit Din of Moses, and the Beit Din of Jephthah is as great before the Place as the Beit Din of Samuel, to inform you that anyone who has been appointed as the leader over the community -- even the lightest of the light -- weighs the same as the mightiest of the mighty. And so it says (Deut. 17:9), "You shall come to the priests, the Levites, and the judge [that there shall be in your days]" -- there is no judge other than that of your generation. And it says (Ecc. 7:10), "Do not say, 'How did it come to pass that the earlier days were better than these?'"