Commentary for Sanhedrin 60:17

אשכחיה רב נחמן בר יצחק לרב הונא בריה דרב יהושע א"ל מאי שנא הלואה אחר הלואה דלא דמנה דקא חזי האי לא קא חזי האי הודאה אחר הודאה נמי אמנה דקא מודה קמי האי לא מודי קמי האי

What is meant by, 'And [the symptoms of puberty] in males and females likewise'?Does it mean that one [witness] testified to [the appearance of] one hairon the part below [the genitals] and another to one hair on the part above?But that is both half of the necessary fact, and also half of the requisitetestimony!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., each witness does not individually testify to the complete fact necessary to establish puberty, but to half a fact. Moreover, that half fact (i.e., a single hair in a particular place) is attested by only half the necessary testimony — one witness instead of two. Whereas in the other cases under discussion each witness testifies to a whole fact, e.g., that A lent money to B. ');">²⁰</span>

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