Commentary for Sanhedrin 54:13
האוהב והשונא אוהב זה שושבינו שונא כל שלא דבר עמו שלשה ימים באיבה א"ל לא נחשדו ישראל על כך:
<b><i>GEMARA</i></b>. Whence is this law derived? — From what our Rabbis taught: The fathersshall not be put to death for [on account of] thechildren.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XXIV, 16. Fathers and sons are unnecessarily in the plural. The Rabbis deduce from this that the text refers to fathers who are brothers, whose relationship is next to that of father and son, so that not only the kinship between one another but also that between one and the son of the other debars from giving evidence. The following kinsmen are thus derived from the text: Father, son, brother and nephew. V. infra. ');"><sup>25</sup></span>
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