Commentary for Ketubot 72:5

אלא דאתו בי תרי ואמרי לדידהו תבעתנהי באיסורא דכוותה הכא דאתו בי תרי ואמרי לדידהו אמר להו זייפו לי בשלמא התם שכיחי פרוצין אלא הכא אם הוא הוחזק כל ישראל מי הוחזקו הכא נמי כיון דקא מהדר אזיופא אימר זיופי זייף וכתב:

Rather two came and said [that] she asked them to commit with her a transgression and similarly here [that] two came and said [that] he said to them: Forge me [the document]. It is all right there, since there are many licentious men. But here if he has been assumed [to have been a forger], have [therefore] all Israelites been established? Here also, since he was going round searching for a forgery, I can say [that] he [himself] has forged it and written it.

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