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The Talmud asks: If R' Yehuda states that this situation is a conspiracy, and there is suspicion that the second set is not truthful, let even the first set of witnesses who were rendered conspiring witnesses based on their testimony also not be executed. R' Abbahu said: The Mishnah is referring t
The Talmud challenges: If so, what was, already was; there is no point in stating it as a halakha. Rather, Rava said this is what R' Yehuda is saying: If it is only one set of witnesses that is rendered conspiring witnesses by the second set, the witnesses are executed; if there is more than one s
Apropos the dispute in the Mishnah, the Talmud relates: There was a certain woman who brought witnesses to testify on her behalf, and they were proven to be liars. She brought other witnesses, and they too were proven to be liars. She went and brought yet other witnesses, who were not proven to be l
The Talmud relates: On another occasion, Reish Lakish and R' Elazar were sitting before R' Yoḥanan and an incident similar to this one came before them for judgment. Reish Lakish said: This woman has assumed the presumptive status of dishonesty. R' Yoḥanan said to him: If she has assumed the presum
The Talmud suggests: Let us say that Reish Lakish stated his opinion that this woman has assumed the presumptive status of dishonesty in accordance with the opinion of R' Yehuda, who invalidates the testimony of witnesses based on suspicion that arises due to the circumstances even though there is