Question: I have a partnership with a smart student Jew, we have a disagreement about a matter and he is suing me to a funding tribunal in his place of residence. I agree to come to court, the question is whether I should go to the law that it sets, or can I choose a tribunal that I want.
Answer: The halach sais that we are following the defendant, which means that the defendant has to choose a tribunal for him to come to the deed. Although the plaintiff is a smart student, he must go to the court hearing that the defendant chooses, except for a place where the plaintiff is considered the quintessential rabbi of the defendant in such a situation that the student must come to the court in which the rabbi is interested, as well as if the plaintiff is the father or mother of the defendant, he must go to the court determined by the plaintiff.
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