Study Shevuot folio 48A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
If one witness who came to testify about the new moon says that he saw it two oxgoads high above the horizon, and the other one says it was 3 oxgoads high, their testimony is valid, as a discrepancy of this type is reasonable. But if one says that he saw the moon 3 oxgoads above the horizon, and th
What, is it not teaching that they each can join with another witness for testimony about monetary matters, even though each of them is suspected of giving false testimony? This contradicts Rav Ḥisda’s opinion. Rava said, explaining how Rav Ḥisda understands this baraita: He, one of the contradic
§ The Mishnah teaches: If one said to a storekeeper: Give me produce valued at a dinar, and he gave him the produce, and subsequently the storekeeper and the customer dispute whether the customer ever paid the storekeeper, the Mishnah rules that the customer takes an oath that he paid. It is taught
The Mishnah continues with a similar case: If one said to a money changer: Give me small coins valued at a dinar, and he gave him the coins, and subsequently they dispute whether the customer gave the money changer the dinar, the customer takes an oath that he paid already. The Talmud notes: It is n
And had the ruling been stated only about that case involving the money changer, one might say that only in that case does R' Yehuda say that the customer need not take an oath to avoid payment, but in this case, involving the storekeeper, say he concedes to the Rabbis. Therefore it is necessary to