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payment of the value of the field to the owner is divided among them.
If the testimony was given by 3 brothers, each of whom testify about one year, and another unrelated individual joined with each of the brothers as the second witness, these are 3 distinct testimonies and they are accepted by the court. If they were to be considered one testimony, it would not be a
Talmud: The Talmud notes: The Mishnah is not in accordance with the opinion of R' Akiva, as it is taught in a baraita (Tosefta, 2:10) that R' Yosei said: When Abba Ḥalafta, R' Yosei’s father, went to R' Yoḥanan ben Nuri to study Torah, and some say: When R' Yoḥanan ben Nuri went to Abba Ḥalafta t
The latter said to him: I say this as well, but R' Akiva disagrees with regard to this matter, as R' Akiva would say that since the verse states: “At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of 3 witnesses, shall a matter be established” (Deuteronomy 19:15), one can derive that testimony is accep
The Talmud asks: And with regard to the Rabbis, who accept the testimony of each of the 3 pairs of witnesses, what do they do with this derivation of: A complete matter, and not half of a matter, i.e., what type of testimony is disqualified based on this derivation? If we say that it serves to exc