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When does this halakha apply, or: In what case is this statement said, he intends only to explain the statement of the Rabbis, not to disagree with them?
Granted, R' Yoḥanan disagrees with R' Yehoshua ben Levi, and says that only the term: When does this halakha apply, indicates that R' Yehuda intends to explain the previous statement of the Rabbis, but the term: In what case is this statement said, indicates that he intends to disagree. But accordin
The Talmud responds: Are you setting the statement of one man against the statement of another man? One Sage, Rami bar Ḥama, holds that R' Yehuda and the Rabbis disagree even when R' Yehuda employs the term: When does this halakha apply, and one Sage, R' Yehoshua ben Levi, and similarly R' Yoḥana
The Talmud asks: And do they not disagree? But isn’t it taught in a baraita: Whether a dice player has an occupation other than this one, or whether he does not have an occupation other than this one, he is disqualified from bearing witness? This baraita is in accordance with the opinion of Rami ba
The Talmud answers: That baraita is not the opinion of the Rabbis in the Mishnah, but rather it is the opinion of R' Yehuda in the name of R' Tarfon. As it is taught in a baraita that R' Yehuda says in the name of R' Tarfon: In the case where two people quarreled and each of them declared that if t