Commentary for Bava Batra 269:10

אמר רבא זאת אומרת מנה לי בידך והלה אומר איני יודע פטור

be forbidden [because there are] witnesses at the North Pole!'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Goldschmidt. Heb., istan, [H] 'the north wind'. Cf. Assyr. is-ta-na-ni ( = north), C. J. Gadd, Tablets from Kirkuk in Revue d'Assyriologie, vol. XXIII, no. 34, line 12, and il-ta-an ( = north) op. cit., no. 2, line 6, and passim. ');">¹⁸</span> Abaye said to him: Shall we relax [the law] in [the case of] a married woman<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'wife of a man', where the assumption is that she is subject to the laws of the levirate marriage. ');">¹⁹</span>

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