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and witnesses see him counting the money from outside, what is the halakha? Is their testimony accepted?
Rav Hamnuna said to Rav Yehuda: And what does the other person claim in response to the demand for repayment? If he says: These matters never happened, he assumes the presumptive status of a denier of the truth, as the witnesses testify that they saw the claimant counting the money and giving it to
The Talmud relates a similar incident: There was a certain individual who said to another: I counted for you and gave you 100 dinars as a loan alongside this column. The other person said to him in response: I did not pass alongside this column. Two witnesses came and testified about him that they
Rav Naḥman objects to this: That is a ruling characteristic of a Persian court, not a reasonable ruling characteristic of a Jewish court. Did the respondent say that he never passed alongside the column? It was that he did not pass alongside the column in the context of this matter that he said to h
There are those who say that the incident transpired a bit differently. There was a certain individual who said to another: I counted for you and gave you 100 dinars as a loan alongside this column. The other person said to him in response: I never passed alongside this column. Witnesses emerged an