A Bet Din is not allowed to accept relatives as witnesses.
Witnesses cannot be related to each other, nor to the defendant.
Applies to everybody, always, everywhere
Verse: "Do not kill fathers by their sons..." (Devarim 24:17)
Source: The Chafetz-Chaim's Sefer haMitzvot haKatzar; Prohibition 74
- Danny
Wednesday, 24 Adar 5770
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