A candidate for the Great Sanhedrim was required, first of all, to have been a judge in his native town; to have transferred from there to the Small Sanhedrim..., thence again to have been advanced to the second Small Sanhedrim... before he could be received as member of the seventy - one. ”
मेक्लिंगटॉक एण्ड स्ट्राँग सायक्लोपीडिया कहती है, “आवेदक को शारीरिक एवं नैतिक रूप से निष्कलंक होना था ।