Midrash for Sanhedrin 68:15
מאי אולמיה דהאי סתמא מהאי סתמא אי בעית אימא סתמא דרבים עדיף ואי בעית אימא משום דקתני לה גבי הלכתא דדינא
for it is written, Wherever the priest looketh,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. verse 12. ');"><sup>28</sup></span> so controversies too may not be tried by the blind.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [Even by one who is blind of one eye only, since it is deduced from 'leprosies', Yad Ramah.] ');"><sup>29</sup></span>
Sifrei Devarim
"and by their word shall every contention and every plague-spot be (ruled upon."): Contentions are being compared to plague-spots, and plague-spots to contentions. Just as plague-spots are (ruled upon) only in the daytime, so, contentions. And just as contentions are not (ruled upon) by kin, so, plague-spots. If so, why not say: Just as contentions require three (judges), so, plague-spots.
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