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The first members of each pair served as Nasi, and their counterparts served as deputy Nasi.
Talmud: A baraita states: 3 of the first pairs who say not to place hands and two of the last pairs who say to place hands served as Nasi, and their counterparts served as deputy Nasi; this is the statement of R' Meir. And the Rabbis say the opposite: Yehuda ben Tabbai was deputy Nasi and Shimon b
The Talmud asks: Who is the tanna who taught that which A baraita states: R' Yehuda ben Tabbai said: I swear that I will not see the consolation of Israel if I did not kill a conspiring witness. This means that R' Yehuda ben Tabbai sentenced a conspiring witness to death, in order to counter the v
Shimon ben Shataḥ said to him: I swear that I will not see the consolation of Israel if you did not shed innocent blood, as the rabbis said: Conspiring witnesses are not executed unless they are both found to be conspirators; if only one is found to be a conspirator, he is not executed. And they a
Hearing this, Yehuda ben Tabbai immediately accepted upon himself not to rule on any matter of law unless he was in the presence of Shimon ben Shataḥ, as he realized he could not rely on his own judgment.