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!”
English: “And Yehudah said” — why did Yehudah open first? Because the court of Shem was the body that issued religious decrees for Yisrael in that era.
On the daf / in context: Torah Temimah asks why Yehudah ruled rather than referring the case to Yaakov or the beis midrash of Shem; the answer places Shem’s court as the era’s religious authority, with Yehudah acting under that order.
Type of Learning
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.
What Is Learned
Yehudah’s judgment is read against the background of Shem’s beis din as the standing religious court of the time.