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for 3 pilgrim Festivals, on which the rabbis gather together to study, but he could not resolve this uncertainty on any of those occasions. Rav Adda bar Ahava said to her: Go before Rav Yosef, whose knife is sharp, i.e., he has keen insight into halakhic matters, and ask him to decide your case.
She went before him and he resolved the case based on this baraita: With regard to a non-Jew who was selling fruit at the market and said: These fruits are from the first 3 years of the tree’s growth [orla]; or they are from Azeka, i.e., land tilled on the Sabbatical Year, the produce of which it
Abba Yudan of Sidon said: An incident occurred involving a Jew and a non-Jew who traveled on the road, and later the non-Jew came and said: Alas for the Jew who was with me on the road, for he died, and I buried him. And the rabbis relied upon this statement and allowed his wife to marry.
And there was another incident involving a group of people who had been taken prisoner, each of whom was shackled with a collar [kolar] around his neck, and they were walking to Antokhya. And some time later a certain non-Jew came and said: Alas for the group of collared people, for they died, and I
Mishnah: Witnesses may testify that an individual died even if they saw his corpse only by candlelight or by moonlight. And the court may allow a woman to marry based on the statement of a disembodied voice proclaiming that her husband died. There was an incident with regard to a certain individual