Commentary for Moed Katan 43:3
לא קשיא הא דאתא בגו תלתא והא דלא אתא בגו תלתא כי הא דאמר להו רב לבני הצלפוני דאתו בגו תלתא לימנו בהדייכו דלא אתו בגו תלתא לימנו לנפשיהו
[You say] 'He counts with them? ' Why, it is taught [definitely]: 'He counts by himself'! - That is not difficult [to explain]: The former [ruling] obtains where he returned within three [days]; the latter [ruling] obtains where he had not returned within three [days]. Similar it is to what Rab told the sons of Hazzalponi:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. I Chron. IV, 3. Or were these Jewish converts of the Beni-Solibi clan of bedouin Arabs, hailing from the neighbourhood of Zulfa in N.E. Arabia? V. Enc. Brit. s.v. Bedouins, III, (11th ed.) p. 623h. [Obermeyer, p. 298, identifies it with Zalfiun near Sura, the seat of Rab.]');"><sup>3</sup></span>
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