Commentary for Rosh Hashanah 44:11

<big><strong>מתני׳</strong></big> בראשונה היו משיאין משואות משקלקלו הכותים התקינו שיהו שלוחין יוצאין

and the man who hired you shall be laid out on the post.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For a flogging.');">¹⁴</span> There and then they ordained that testimony should be received only from persons who were known to them. <big><b>MISHNAH: </b></big>ORIGINALLY THEY USED TO LIGHT<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Hebrew word is massi'in, which literally means 'raise up'.');">¹⁵</span> BEACONS.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To convey the news of the New Moon to the diaspora in Babylon.');">¹⁶</span>

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