EXTRA side-ring · not on main TT sequence
Parashas Noach · Tower · Passuk 11:5
And Hashem came down to see the city and the tower that the children of man had built.
Rashi on Genesis 11:5 — Rashi explicitly identifies this teaching as coming from Midrash R. Tanchuma.
Sefaria — Rashi on Genesis 11:5
English: “And Hashem came down to see” — He did not need to do so; rather, it came to teach judges not to declare the defendant guilty until they have seen and understood the matter. This is the Midrash of R. Tanchuma.
Custom (judicial ethics from Rashi’s citation of Midrash Tanchuma).
Judges must examine and understand a case before declaring the defendant guilty.