TT #614 · Parashas Ki Seitzei · Seventh Aliyah · Passuk 25:01
When there is a dispute between men and they come to judgment, and they judge them, and they declare the righteous one righteous and the wicked one wicked,
Torah Temimah points to Sifrei Devarim 286.
TT lemma: רִיב בֵּין אֲנָשִׁים.
English: ‘A dispute between men’ – and not, for this purpose, between a man and a woman.
Derash on the parties (Sifrei) — the paradigmatic case is framed as between men.
The Torah introduces the judicial sequence with a dispute between men; the procedural lessons still govern the court’s handling of guilt and punishment.