Commentary for Keritot 29:3
אמר רבא
Symmachus said in the name of R'Meir: To eighty.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Forty lashes means actually one set of thirty-nine strokes. 'Forty' is a term adopted from the text (Deut. XXV, 3) . Eighty lashes means twofold flagellation.');"><sup>2</sup></span>
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