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it teaches us as Abaye answers him below.
The Talmud offers an alternative resolution of the difficulty posed by the baraita: And if you wish, say that the assertion of the baraita that the prohibitions against taking an oath in vain and taking a false oath are one means: Just as one brings an offering for taking a false oath, so one brings
The Talmud raises an objection to R' Yoḥanan’s distinction between a false oath and an oath taken in vain from a baraita: Which oath is an oath taken in vain? It is when one takes an oath to deny that which is known to people to be true. And a false oath is when one takes an oath that contradicts t
§ When Ravin came from Eretz Yisrael to Babylonia, he reported that R' Yirmeya says that R' Abbahu says that R' Yoḥanan says: If one takes an oath, saying: I ate, or: I did not eat, it is a false oath if it is not true. And its prohibition in the Torah is from: “And you shall not take an oath by
Rav Pappa said: This statement of R' Abbahu, i.e., conveying the opinion of R' Yoḥanan, was not stated explicitly by R' Abbahu; rather, it was stated by inference. It was inferred from that which Rav Idi bar Avin says that Rav Amram says that Rav Yitzḥak says that R' Yoḥanan says that R' Yehuda sa