יָשַׁב בַּדִּין, יָשַׁב עַל מִדִּין

ביטוי (אנגלית)

To sit in judgment, to sit on the bench/ to sit in court/ judge

הגדרה (אנגלית)

To judge; to sit on the seat of judgment; to serve in a judicial capacity.

("My heart is with the lawgivers of Israel who volunteer among the people. Bless the Lord. Riders of white she-asses, those who sit in judgment, and those who walk by the way, speak" - Judges 5:9 (Song of Deborah), and likewise: "Thus did the scrupulous people of Jerusalem: they would not sign a document unless they knew who signed with them. And they would not sit in judgment unless they knew who sat with them, and they would not enter a meal unless they knew who reclined with them" - Sanhedrin 23a, and likewise: "And those who sit in judgment, meaning judges, who were afraid to render judgment in public" - Rashi on Judges 5:9, and likewise: "As is the case today, as a jubilee of years counted in the reckoning of the Holocaust, the justices of the Supreme Court of the State of Israel sit in judgment on the appeal of the appellant who was convicted and sentenced by the District Court in Israel for his share in the Holocaust of the Jewish people and in crimes against humanity" - from the opening of the Supreme Court judgment in Criminal Appeal 347/88, published in Piskei Din, PD 47, 4, 221)