Commentary for Kiddushin 143:6

ופליגא דר' אבא בר כהנא דאמר ר' אבא בר כהנא מאי דכתיב (מלכים ב יח, יא) וינחם בחלח ובחבור נהר גוזן וערי מדי חלח זו חלזון חבור זו הדייב נהר גוזן זו גינזק ערי מדי זו חמדן וחברותיה ואמרי לה זו נהוונד וחברותיה

- Said Abaye: A strip issues [beyond that limit].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which includes Shot-Mishot.');">¹⁸</span> R'Ika B'Abin said in the name of R'Hananel in Rab's name: Halwan and Nahawand are as the Exile in respect to genealogy.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Though these are in Media, Halwan lay on the great historic route from Babylon to Media, some forty-one parasangs from Bagdad. Nahawand was situated in the middle of Media, about fourteen parasangs from Hamadan in a southerly direction. Its Jewish community may have consisted then of Babylonian colonists, and hence the genealogical purity here ascribed to it. Obermeyer, pp. 106-8.');">¹⁹</span> Said Abaye to them [his disciples]: Disregard him: a yebamah has fallen to him there.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And he asserts their pure birth because he wishes to marry her.');">²⁰</span> Is it then my [dictum]? he replied; it is R'Hananel's! So they went and enquired of R'Hananel, who said to them: Thus did Rab say: Halwan and Nahawand are as the Exile in respect to genealogy.

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