Commentary for Yevamot 234:3

דלמא שאני התם דרגיש לה צערא:

would not in the future<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' When her husband and son returned from their foreign travels. ');">⁸</span> come to torment her!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' By reporting to her son all the doings of his wife. It is thus obvious that a daughter-in-law is not believed as a witness for her mother-in-law, though the cause of her hatred (the return of her husband and his mother's gossip) is still a thing of the future and at the time her evidence is given, potential only. From this it follows that a potential mother-in-law also is equally ineligible as a witness for her potential daughter. in-law. ');">⁹</span> — There<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since in that case the woman for whom evidence is given was already her mother-in-law. ');">¹⁰</span> it may be different because she<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The daughter-in-law. ');">¹¹</span>

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