Topic: The Tur’s formulation of the mitzvah to offer פשרה — compromise — and the discussion of whether the judge should present compromise before strict law or after it.

Topic: The Rambam’s ruling on פשרה — compromise — especially when it is a mitzvah to offer compromise and when it becomes too late to do so.

Topic: The dispute between Rashi and Tosafot about the latest point at which Beit Din may offer פשרה — compromise — and the exception of compromise to avoid an oath.

Topic: The halacha follows Rabbi Yehoshua ben Korcha that there is a mitzvah to offer compromise, but the Gemara limits when compromise may be offered.

Topic: The beginning of the discussion of פשרה — compromise in Beit Din — and the dispute among the Tannaim whether compromise is permitted, prohibited, or a mitzvah.

Topic: The ruling of the Shulchan Aruch and Rema on לא תגורו מפני איש, and the later discussion of when fear, danger, or pikuach nefesh may justify a judge withdrawing from a case.

Topic: Two further qualifications in the Beit Yosef and Darkei Moshe: when a judge must take a case despite concern, and when real danger may justify withdrawal.

Topic: The Rashba’s responsum on a Beit Din threatened by a litigant, and whether לא תגורו מפני איש requires judges to face actual danger.

Topic: The source and scope of the Rambam’s ruling that a publicly appointed judge may not withdraw from a case out of fear, and the dispute over whether לא תגורו requires a judge to enter actual danger.

Topic: The Gemara’s limitation of לא תגורו מפני איש — when a judge may withdraw from a case because of fear, and when he may not.