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Although one who is considered a robber according to the words of the rabbis is unfit for other forms of testimony, he is fit as a witness for testimony that a woman’s husband died. A robber according to Torah law is unfit as a witness even for testimony that a woman’s husband has died. Should we sa
The Talmud rejects this: Rav Menashe could have said to you: I am speaking even according to the opinion of the Rabbis. Although the Rabbis did not allow one who was wicked by Torah law to testify for a woman, a witness who admitted: I killed him, is nevertheless believed. And the rationale of the
The Talmud asks: Shall we say according to this explanation that the opinion that Rav Yosef spoke is in accordance with the opinion of R' Yehuda? The Talmud rejects this: Rav Yosef could have said to you: I am speaking even according to the opinion of the Rabbis, as in my opinion, testimony enablin
In the Mishnah it is taught that the court accepts testimony from one who said: I killed him, or: We killed him, while R' Yehuda differentiates between one who said: I killed him, whose testimony is not accepted, and one who said: We killed him, whose testimony is accepted and the woman may be mar
And it is taught in a baraita that this is the basis for R' Yehuda’s distinction: They told R' Yehuda: There was an incident involving an armed bandit [listim] who was taken out to be executed in the passage [megizat] of Cappadocia, and he said to those present: Go and tell the wife of Shimon the P