The Sanhedrincouncil of seventy-one Jewish sages who constituted the Supreme Court and legislative body of Ancient Israel is the name given to the council of seventy-one Jewish sages who constituted the Supreme Court and legislative body of Ancient IsraelNation of the Jewish People. The make-up of the council included a president (Nasi), vice president (Av Beit Din), and sixty-nine general members who all sat in the form of a semi-circle when in session. The constitution of seventy-one was to preclude the possibility of a tie.
G-d commanded Moses to lay hands on Joshua, son of Nun. It is from this point, classical Rabbinic tradition holds, the Sanhedrincouncil of seventy-one Jewish sages who constituted the Supreme Court and legislative body of Ancient Israel began: with seventy elders, headed by Moses, for a total of seventy-one. As individuals within the Sanhedrincouncil of seventy-one Jewish sages who constituted the Supreme Court and legislative body of Ancient Israel died, or otherwise became unfit for service, new members underwent ordination,
or Semicha. These ordinations continued, in an unbroken line: from Moses to Joshua, the Israelite elders, the prophets (including Ezra, Nehemiah) on to all the sages of the Sanhedrincouncil of seventy-one Jewish sages who constituted the Supreme Court and legislative body of Ancient Israel. It was not until sometime after the destruction of the Second Temple that this line was broken, and the Sanhedrincouncil of seventy-one Jewish sages who constituted the Supreme Court and legislative body of Ancient Israel dissolved.
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