Pirkei Avot §avot_01_08: Judah ben Tabbai and Shimon ben Shetach received [the oral tradition] from them.

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Source: Pirkei Avot — Ethics of the Fathers (Mishnah, c. AD 200) (avot_01_08) · external_aligned

Judah ben Tabbai and Shimon ben Shetach received [the oral tradition] from them. Judah ben Tabbai said: do not [as a judge] play the part of an advocate; and when the litigants are standing before you, look upon them as if they were [both] guilty; and when they leave your presence, look upon them as if they were [both] innocent, when they have accepted the judgement.

Witnesses (Deuteronomy 19:15)

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