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but do not learn from it either, as a judge has only what his eyes see as the basis for his ruling. One must rule according to his own understanding.
§ Rava raises a dilemma: In the case of a healthy person who bequeaths his estate to one of his sons, how should the court rule? Should it be reasoned that when R' Yoḥanan ben Beroka says that the bequeathal is valid, he said so specifically with regard to the case of a person on his deathbed, since
Rav Mesharshiyya said to Rava: Come and hear a resolution of your dilemma from a baraita, as R' Natan said to R' Yehuda HaNasi: You taught in your Mishnah in accordance with the opinion of R' Yoḥanan ben Beroka, as we learned in a Mishnah (Ketubot 52b): If the husband did not write for her in her ma
And R' Yehuda HaNasi said to him: We did not learn that the male children she has from him will inherit the money of the marriage contract; that version is not accurate. Rather, we learned that they will take the money of the marriage contract, as a gift. When a bequeathal is worded in this manner,
The baraita continues: And R' Yehuda HaNasi later retracted his response, and said: My response was because of immaturity that I had in me, and I was insolent in the presence of R' Natan the Babylonian by responding in a manner that is incorrect. It is incorrect for the following reason: But since