Commentary for Kiddushin 146:6

אלא כי אתמר דרבא אהא דאמר רב יהודה אמר רבי אבא אמר רבי יהודה בר זבדי אמר רב כל זמן שבשוק אביו ואמו נאמנים עליו נאסף מן השוק אין נאמנים עליו

Shall we say, to a public thoroughfare? because it is in famine years one [the mother] is to kill him! Again, if it refers to the side passages off a public thoroughfare, why particularly famine years? [It is so] even without famine years! - But Raba's [dictum] was stated in reference to what Rab Judah said in the name of R'Abba in the name of R'Judah B'Zabdi in Rab's name: As long as he [the exposed child] is in the street, his father and mother are believed concerning him;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In their claim that he is their child.');">¹⁰</span>

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