Commentary for Yevamot 229:12

ותסברא מים שאין להם סוף נינהו ומים שאין להם סוף אשתו אסורה אלא ה"ד דאמרי אסקינהו קמן

why should 'this country<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The expression used by R. Nehemiah. ');">³⁹</span> be different?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' From other countries. ');">⁴⁰</span> He should [have said]. 'Wherever raiders exist'!-Rather, said Raba, it is this that was meant: 'You know that this country is infested<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'entangled'. confused'. ');">⁴¹</span> with raiders and it is impossible for me to leave my family and to come before the Rabbis; I have this tradition from R. Gamaliel: That a [married] woman may be allowed to marry again on the evidence of one witness Come and hear: Two learned men<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Glos. s.v. Talmid Hakam. ');">⁴²</span> once travelled with Abba Jose b. Simai on board a ship, which sank. And on the evidence of women, Rabbi<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' R. Judah the Prince. ');">⁴³</span> allowed their wives to marry again. [Now, evidence of death by] water is, surely, like [that of death in] war, and women, even a hundred of them, are legally equal to one witness,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf supra 88b. ');">⁴⁴</span> and yet it was stated [that Rabbi] 'Allowed … to marry'!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' From which it follows that one witness is believed (cf. supra p. 811, n. 10) even in a time of war. ');">⁴⁵</span> — And do you understand this?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Rabbi's ruling in the case of the wives of the drowned scholars. ');">⁴⁶</span> Those<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the sea. ');">⁴⁷</span> were waters without [a visible] end,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., all the limits cannot he seen from any one point on the shore. Cf. infra 121a. ');">⁴⁸</span> and [when a man is drowned in] waters without [a visible] end his wife is forbidden [to marry again]!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Even if fully qualified men had witnessed the accident, because it is possible that the man may have swum to, or the waters have cast him upon another part of the shore where he was rescued. As all the shore line cannot be seen from the point where he fell into the waters (v. supra n. 5) his rescue may have been effected, though none of the men of the locality have observed it ');">⁴⁹</span> How, then, is this to be understood? [Obviously] that they<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The women who gave evidence. ');">⁵⁰</span> stated, '[The drowned men] were cast up in our presence

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