Commentary for Yevamot 183:4

א"ר נחמן תדע דהוראה היא דבכל התורה כולה עד אחד לא מהימן והכא מהימן מ"ט לאו משום דהוראה היא אמר רבא תדע דטעות הוא דאילו הורו ב'ד בחלב ובדם להיתירא והדר חזו טעמא לאיסורא כי הדרי ואמרי להיתירא לא משגחינן להו

is [to be regarded as] a ruling.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Subject to the same laws as all erroneous rulings issued by a Beth din. Cf. supra 11. 6. and Hor. 2aff. ');">¹²</span> Said R. Nahman: You can have proof<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'thou shalt know'. ');">¹³</span> that it [is to be regarded as] a ruling. For throughout the Torah a single witness is never believed while in this case he is believed. But why? Obviously<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'not?' ');">¹⁴</span> because [such an authorization is regarded as] a ruling.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The woman did not act on the evidence of the witness which, as is now apparent, was due to an error, but on the ruling of the Beth din who accepted the evidence of this witness. Whatever their reason may have been it was their ruling that was the cause of the woman's marriage. ');">¹⁵</span>

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