״במי שהוא רחום״ קאמר.
or in the name of He Who is compassionate, that the tanna is stating the halakha. Although gracious and compassionate are not names of God, the reference in the Mishnah is to an oath in the name of God.
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״במי שהוא רחום״ קאמר.
or in the name of He Who is compassionate, that the tanna is stating the halakha. Although gracious and compassionate are not names of God, the reference in the Mishnah is to an oath in the name of God.
אמר ליה רבא: אי הכי, ״בשמים ובארץ״ נמי – ״במי שהשמים והארץ שלו״ קאמר!
Rava said to Abaye: If so, in the case of one who administered the oath to the witnesses in the name of heaven and in the name of earth as well, say that it is with regard to an oath in the name of He for Whom the heaven and the earth are His that the tanna is stating the halakha. Why, then, does the Mishnah say that for an oath in the name of heaven and in the name of earth, these witnesses are exempt from liability?
הכי השתא?! התם, כיון דליכא מידי אחרינא דאיקרי רחום וחנון – ודאי ״במי שהוא חנון״, ודאי ״במי שהוא רחום״ קאמר. הכא, כיון דאיכא שמים וארץ – ״בשמים ובארץ״ קאמר.
The Talmud rejects this: How can these cases be compared? There, since there is no other entity that is called gracious and compassionate, certainly it is in the name of He Who is gracious, and certainly it is in the name of He Who is compassionate that the tanna is speaking. By contrast, here, since there are heaven and earth that exist as independent entities, perhaps when he administers an oath in the name of heaven and in the name of earth, it is in the name of the actual heaven and in the name of the actual earth that he is speaking, and not in the name of He for Whom the heaven and the earth are His.
תנו רבנן: כתב אלף למד מ״אלהים״, ״יה״ מ״יי״ – הרי זה אינו נמחק. שין דלת מ״שדי״, אלף דלת מ״אדני״, צדי בית מ״צבאות״ – הרי זה נמחק.
§ Apropos the names of God that may be erased and those that may not be erased, the Talmud discusses the details of the matter. A baraita states: If one wrote the letters alef lamed from the name Elohim, or yod heh from the Tetragrammaton, this pair of letters and that pair of letters may not be erased. But if one wrote the letters shin dalet from Shaddai, or alef dalet from Adonai, or tzadi beit from Tzevaot, this may be erased.
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