You have to have a sense of hakaras hatov to our medina which enables us to serve on a jury. Back in europe, times werent so pashut, and the governments hated yiddens involvement with the government, and even persecuted them. baruch Ha-Shem that we live in America, which the Aibeshter made to be a nice liberal government. next time you are in jury duty, open up a gemara, learn a shtikel and realize it could be far worse
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