Commentary for Yevamot 183:3

ורב נחמן אמר הוראה היא

that the sun had set,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And permitted the people to commence their week-day labours which are forbidden on the Sabbath. ');">⁸</span> and later it appeared, [such a decision] is no ruling<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which exempts the individual who acted upon it from a sin- offering and affects the nature of the sin-offering which the congregation who acted upon it has to bring. ');">⁹</span> but a mere error.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since the erroneous ruling of the Beth din was not due to an oversight on their part of a point of law but to a false assumption of a matter of fact. They assumed that the sun had set, while in fact, it had not. Similarly here, They assumed that the woman's husband was dead when as a matter of fact he was alive. Our Mishnah, therefore, which exempts the woman from a sin-offering cannot be authentic. ');">¹⁰</span> R. Nahman. however, stated: [Such an authorization]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The permission to the woman to marry again, spoken of in our Mishnah. ');">¹¹</span>

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