📋 הלכות עדות

Chapter 1 — The Duty to Testify and Interrogating Witnesses

Chapter 2 — When Testimonies Align or Conflict

Chapter 3 — Financial Testimony: Rules and Documents

Chapter 4 — Combining Testimonies: Capital vs. Financial Cases

Chapter 5 — The Single Witness and Disqualifying Relatives

Chapter 6 — Validating Documents: Five Methods and Their Rules

Chapter 7 — Relatives Identifying Signatures and Complex Validation Scenarios

Chapter 8 — Testifying From Memory: What a Witness Must Recall

Chapter 9 — The Ten Categories of Disqualified Witnesses

Chapter 10 — The Wicked: Who Is Disqualified for Immoral Conduct

Chapter 11 — The Debased, the Unlearned, and Presumptions of Fitness

Disqualification & Repentance — How witnesses lose and regain their credibility

Relatives as Witnesses — The Torah's decree on family testimony

Changing Circumstances & Document Validation — Timing and transformation of witness eligibility

Interested Witnesses — When personal benefit disqualifies testimony

Interest Disqualification in Property Disputes — Complex cases of vested testimony

Standards of Testimony — What a witness must personally know and how courts verify it

Eid Zomeim — The conspiring witness and his punishment

Hazamah in Practice — Distance, timing, and document witnesses

Conditions for Zomeim Punishment — When hazamah leads to consequences

Calculating Zomeim Payments — Complex financial cases of conspiring witnesses

Contradicting Witness Groups — Testimony, trust, and the final principles of Hilchot Edut