How Do We Know When the Majority Is a Tool for Decision-Making and When It Cannot Determine Truth?
When is majority rule a valid way to decide, and when does a question require a different standard?
This source-based Torah essay uses Korach’s challenge to Moses to distinguish between majority rule as a decision procedure and truth as something that is not automatically created by counting votes. It connects the Torah’s own use of majority in defined legal settings with the limits of that principle. Contemporary democratic and constitutional analogies remain illustrative and require careful framing.