TT #40 · Parashas Vayeishev · Passuk 38:24
Parashas Vayeishev · Passuk 38:24
About three months later, Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has played the whore; in fact, she is pregnant from whoredom.” “Bring her out,”fout For a hearing in court. said Judah. “She should be burned!”
Torah Temimah points to Yerushalmi Sanhedrin 4:7.
Sefaria — Yerushalmi Sanhedrin 4:7
“And Yehudah said” — why did Yehudah speak first? Because capital cases begin with the judge at the side, first.
Derash on the verse (Bavli/midrash style) — not a formal named middah of the 13. The speaker is identified with the institutional court of the generation.
The derash explains why Yehudah spoke first in the judicial proceedings: capital cases begin by hearing the opinion of the judge at the side, before the senior judges.