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only for testimony that a woman’s husband died, enabling her to remarry. Only in that case can a ruling rely on hearsay testimony, and that is specifically so the woman will be allowed to remarry.
A dilemma was raised before the rabbis about a related matter: With regard to hearsay testimony in testimony permitting a priest to eat a firstborn animal, what is the halakha? After the destruction of the Temple, the rabbis decreed that if a priest has the firstborn offspring of a kosher animal and
Rav Ami said to Rav Asi: Didn’t the school of Menashya teach that hearsay testimony is only valid in testimony enabling a woman to remarry, indicating that it is not accepted in the case of a firstborn animal? Rav Asi answered: Emend the previously cited ruling and say: Hearsay testimony is only va
We learned in the Mishnah that according to R' Eliezer, honey that flows on its own from honeycombs is permitted on Shabbat. When Rav Hoshaya came from Neharde’a, he came and brought a baraita with him: With regard to olives and grapes that one crushed before Shabbat and their juices seeped out on
Rav Yosef said rhetorically: Did he merely come to teach us an additional person? This opinion already appears in the Mishnah in the name of R' Elazar. Did Rav Hoshaya cite the baraita merely to add the name of R' Shimon? Abaye said to him: He is teaching us a great deal, as if we learned this matt