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the handle of a spear [devortiya].
Rav Abba bar Ya’akov said to bar Ḥama: Why did you bring these witnesses? What do you hold? Do you hold like R' Meir, that one who is guilty of a monetary transgression is disqualified from bearing witness in capital cases too? But in a dispute between R' Meir and R' Yosei, the halakha is in accor
Rav Pappi immediately said to him: This statement applies only where the tanna did not teach us an unattributed Mishnah in accordance with the opinion of R' Meir. Here, the tanna taught us an unattributed Mishnah in accordance with the opinion of R' Meir.
The Talmud asks: From what Mishnah is it seen that the tanna taught an unattributed Mishnah in accordance with the opinion of R' Meir? If we say it is from that which we learned in a Mishnah (Nidda 49b): Anyone who is fit to adjudicate cases of capital law is fit to adjudicate cases of monetary law,
The Talmud explains why this cannot be the source: If this is the unattributed Mishnah Rav Pappi was referring to, from where is it derived that it is the opinion of R' Meir? Perhaps the Mishnah is referring to those who are disqualified from serving as judges due to their lineage, e.g., converts a