Sanhedrin 36: Sanhedrin Guidelines - Membership

Some brief points on today's daf:

• The rabbis discuss the times that a deathbed claim overrides other mitzvot
• The rabbis discuss which Sages are greatest and when those Sages speak in monetary or ritual impurity cases
• The rabbis consider whether a student/son or a student/rebbi count as one or two 
• The rabbis examine differences between capital and monetary cases, including how animals are tried
• A baraita teaches that those on the Sanhedrin must 
• be young enough to remember the pain of raising children
• have had children
• Rabbi Yehuda adds that a member of the Sanhedrin must not be cruel
• The rabbis consider who is qualified to judge monetary cases, including mamzerim
• The rabbis discuss whether or not blemishes disqualify judges - and whether those blemishes are of lineage or physical
• A new Mishna teaches that both small and large Sanhedrin courts sit in a semi-circle where all people can see each other
• One scribe stands to the right of the judges and another stands to the left, writing their words
• Rabbi Yehuda suggests that there is a third scribe as well