Commentary for Bava Batra 253:11

א"ל רב פפא לרבא והא שלח רבין דבר זה שאלתי לכל רבותי ולא אמרו לי דבר ברם כך אמרו משום ר' ינאי הוכרו ולבסוף נתערבו כותבין הרשאה זה לזה לא הוכרו אין כותבין הרשאה זה לזה

were identified,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' At their birth. ');">³⁷</span> and afterwards they were exchanged, they may give written authorisation to one another; [if] they were not identified,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' At their birth. ');">³⁷</span> they may not give written authorisation to one another.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' How, then, could Raba state that is written authorisation may be given in all cases, presumably even when they were never identified. ');">³⁸</span> Subsequently Raba appointed an Amora<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' An interpreter. v. Glos. ');">³⁹</span>

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