Commentary for Bava Batra 327:8

[השתא נמי] מאי אמרת מוחק חוזר ומוחק הא אמרת אינו דומה נמחק פעם אחת לנמחק שתי פעמים הני מילי היכא דחתימי סהדי אמחקא היכא דלא חתימי סהדי אמחקא אלא אניירא לא ידיע

one [can] erase it!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And the erasure would raise no suspicion since the witnesses also are signed on an erasure. ');">²⁰</span> They write [it]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The formula, 'We witnesses etc.' ');">²¹</span> between the signatures.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., between witness and witness'. Consequently it cannot be cut off without cutting away with it one of the signatures; and should it be erased, it would leave a doubly erased spot which could be easily distinguished from that of the signatures which appear on what was erased only once. ');">²²</span>

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