Commentary for Kiddushin 151:11

ואיהי נמי תבדוק בי' בדידיה מסייע לי' לרב דאמר רב יהודה אמר רב לא הוזהרו כשרות לינשא לפסולים

R'JOSE SAID: ALSO WHOEVER WAS SIGNED AS A WITNESS IN THE OLD COURT<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' , v. next note.');">²¹</span> OF SEPPHORIS.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Rashi's text appears to omit 'witness' in which case it means whoever stood on the list of judges. On both versions, the reason is that they vbahv hfrg were particular that these should be only men of proved purity of descent. [The meaning of the phrase is doubtful. Schurer II. 1. p. 138 (Eng. ed.) renders it 'the ancient government', **, the reference being to the old government in Sepphoris, the members of which were all Israelites, in contradistinction to the later government set up by the Romans, in his view, in the days of Hadrian, which was of a mixed or heathen composition (Buchler JQR, XVI, p. 160 dates the change in the composition of the government to the days of Agrippa II) . Render accordingly 'whoever was recognised as a member of the old government'. Another possible meaning is 'old archives' or 'old family registers'. v. Buchler Priester &amp; Cultus, pp. 198ff.]');">²²</span> R'HANINA B. ANTIGONUS SAID: ALSO ONE WHO WAS RECORDED IN THE KING'S LIST OF OFFICERS.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Heb. isteratya; the Gemara discusses this.');">²³</span>

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