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The Beit Din: Party Game
Judge Real Talmud Cases
Jackbox energy, beis-midrash soul.
The Beit Din turns real dilemmas from the Mishnah and Gemara into a party game. You and your friends are the rabbinical court: read the case, each rule privately, argue it out loud, then reveal what the source actually concluded — with its reasoning.
Three ways to play
- Pass one phone around the table
- Give every judge their own phone, connected directly between the phones in the room
- Put an iPad in the middle as the table screen, ballots staying private on the phones
Also plays alone
- A solo docket of 5, 7 or 10 cases with a summary of how you ruled
- Today's Case — one case a day, with a lifetime agreement rate
Four dockets
- Beit Din — the classic court, 2–8 judges, 90 seconds an argument
- Chavruta — head to head, two learners, two minutes
- Sanhedrin — the full bench, 4–8 judges, three minutes
- Speed Round — thirty seconds, rule from the gut
And for Shabbos
- Print a pack of cases and their rulings, and play at the table with the phones away
129 real cases
Every one is a canonical text case with its exact reference — modernized in framing, faithful in substance. When the source itself leaves the question standing, the case says so and both defended positions score. It's a learning game built on real sources, not psak halacha; real questions deserve a real rav.
Completely offline
The whole deck, every docket, pass-the-phone, the table screen, the solo docket and the printed pack all work with the internet off. Playing on everyone's phone is direct between the phones in the room over the local network — nothing is sent over the internet, there is no network to join, and there is no account. No server of ours, no sign-in, no analytics.
Learn the real sugya behind every case in Derekh Learning, the full Jewish-learning app.
