Commentary for Moed Katan 31:21

אמר רב חסדא נידוי שלנו כנזיפה שלהן ונזיפה דידהו שבעה ותו לא והא ר"ש בר רבי ובר קפרא הוו יתבי וקא גרסי קשיא להו שמעתא א"ל ר"ש לבר קפרא דבר זה צריך רבי א"ל בר קפרא לר"ש ומה רבי אומר בדבר זה

From this you derive three points: - [a] That if a disciple 'separated' someone in [defence of] his personal dignity,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [Since we find that a disciple's ban has no force as far as the teacher is concerned, which can apply only to a ban imposed in defence of the disciple's own dignity, and not to one for a general transgression.]');">³⁸</span> the 'separation' lies, and you infer [b] that each person revokes his own part, and you infer [c] that if a body of three have pronounced a shammetha on a person, three others may not come and release him.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [ (b) and (c) are inferred from the statement of R. Simeon b. Gamaliel. The phrase 'his part is not nullified' is taken to mean that it can never be nullified.]');">³⁹</span> Amemar said: 'The rule in practice is, that if a body of three have laid a shammetha on a person, a body of three others [can] come and release him'.

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