[Avodah] public bet din

[Eli Turkel]

Are the proceedings of a (monetary) bet din - either today or
when there was real semicha - open to the public?

One person questioned this on the basis that hearing each person's
claims against the other would lead an observer to lashon ha-rah,
either accepting the claims of someone else being a rasha or even
passing it along.

I am not aware of any plave that says that monetary bet din procedures
are closed to non-participants. This began from a sugya that says that
bringing a person who seems to be a second witness to court but
in reality is not is a form of a lie.

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Eli Turkel