Talmud for Rosh Hashanah 49:15

בא לו אצל רבי דוסא בן הורכינס כו': ת"ר למה לא נתפרשו שמותם של זקנים הללו שלא יאמר אדם פלוני כמשה ואהרן פלוני כנדב ואביהוא פלוני כאלדד ומידד

He then said to him: The text says, 'you', 'you', 'you', three times,29 to indicate that 'you' [may fix the festivals] even if you err inadvertently, 'you', even you err deliberately, 'you', even if you are misled.30 He replied to him in these words: 'Akiba, you have comforted me, you have comforted me'.31

Jerusalem Talmud Rosh Hashanah

HALAKHAH: It is written¹²⁰1S. 12:6., the Eternal Who made Moses and Aaron and Who brought up etc. ¹²¹1S. 12:11.Then the Eternal sent Yerubbaal, and Bedan, and Yephtah, and Samuel. Yerubbaal is Gideon¹²²Jud. 6:32.. Bedan is Simson¹²³The name Bedan appears again in 1Chr. 7:17, as name of a Gileadite. Since nothing is otherwise known of this person and he is not mentioned as a Judge, the word is not read as a proper name but as a statement, “in Dan”; referring to Simson, the only Judge of the tribe of Dan.. Yephtah is Yephtah the Gileadite. He combined the three most lightweight of the world¹²⁴Gideon is suspected of introducing aspects of paganism into Jewish worship with his ephod, Simson is depicted as rather dumb, and Yephtah, judged by the standard of rabbinic law, showed his incompetence in the case of his daughter’s vow. with the three most powerful of the world, to teach you that the Courts of Gideon, and Yephtah, and Simson are of equal consideration as those of Moses, Aaron, and Samuel. Not only this but He mentioned the great ones on both sides and the little ones in the middle¹²⁵Babli 25a..

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