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the witnesses who testified that he is unfit and the judges who testified that he is fit are two witnesses and two witnesses who contradict them, and in that case, the allegation of theft is not completely eliminated. If it was a challenge based on an allegation of flawed lineage, e.g., he is a Can
§ R' Zeira said: This matter, I heard from R' Abba, and if it was not for R' Abba of Akko, I would have forgotten it. With regard to a case of 3 judges who convened as a tribunal to ratify a document, and one of them died before signing the ratification, the surviving judges must emend the standard
Rav Naḥman bar Yitzḥak said: And if the judges wrote in the ratification: This document was produced before us, the court; they no longer need to add that they were 3 judges, as, when unmodified, the term court connotes a tribunal of 3 judges. The Talmud asks: And perhaps it was an impudent court,
The Talmud answers: It is clear that the document was ratified by the requisite 3 judges, as it is written in the ratification: Before us, the court of our teacher Rav Ashi, which presumably conforms to rabbinic protocol. The Talmud asks: And perhaps the Rabbis of the court of Rav Ashi hold in acco
Mishnah: With regard to a woman who said: I was a married woman and now I am a divorcée, she is deemed credible and permitted to remarry, as the mouth that prohibited and established that she was married is the mouth that permitted, and established that she is divorced. However, if there are witne