Midrash for Sanhedrin 68:19
כדרב יהודה אמר רב דאמר רב יהודה אמר רב שלשה שנכנסו לבקר את החולה רצו כותבין רצו עושין דין שנים כותבין ואין עושין דין
— R. Johanan found another anonymous Mishnah,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which implied that a blind man is permitted to judge. ');"><sup>35</sup></span> viz., CIVIL SUITS ARE TRIED BY DAY AND CONCLUDED BY NIGHT.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For there are many whose eye-sight is as dim by night as that of a blind man by day. ');"><sup>36</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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