Commentary for Shevuot 60:12

(סימן סניגרון בור גזלת מרמה)

R'Shisha the son of R'Idi said: We also learnt thus: If he found a sack or a basket which it is not his custom to handle, he need not take it.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' B.M. 29b; if an eminent man finds in the street something which, even if it were his own, he would not trouble to take into his house, because he deems it undignified, he need not pick it up in order to restore it to its owner.');">²³</span> However, this is only the case in money matters,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' He need not give evidence, if it is undignified.');">²⁴</span> but in the case of a prohibition<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' E.g., if a married woman comes before the judge saying she believes her husband to be dead, and she desires to re-marry; and this scholar knows her husband to be alive, he must give his evidence before the judge, though he is his junior or inferior, for, in face of a prohibition, his dignity does not count.');">²⁵</span>

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