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For the past two weeks we have examined how the king and courts each occupied a place in the administration of justice.
But Jewish kings have been gone for a very very long time. With their departure Jewish self-government continued to exist. We will see that the institutions of self-government were the local courts, councils known as טובי העיר and prominent rabbis. All of these institutions were “fitted together” in the writings of the Medieval Halacha sources that we will see today.