Commentary for Yevamot 243:1

תלתא ריגלי אמר לה רב אדא בר אהבה זיל לקמיה דרב יוסף דחריף סכינא

for three festivals,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H], when the scholars and students who were assembled for the purpose of listening to the festival discourses, were also asked to decide difficult points of law that had arisen during the preceding months. During these gatherings the woman had an opportunity of making enquiries about her vanished husband. According to [H] cited by Rashi, the [H] were the anniversaries of the deaths of distinguished men, when scholars from the surrounding localities as well as the general public assembled round the respective graves for study and for discussions of matters of law. ');">¹</span> R. Adda b. Ahabah said to her, 'Apply<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'go before'. ');">²</span> to R. Joseph, whose knife is sharp'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Metaph., he is capable of acute logical reasoning and deduction. Cf. Rashi, Hul 77a. ');">³</span> When she came to him he decided<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'solved'. ');">⁴</span> [her case by deduction] from the following Baraitha:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cur. edd., 'Mishnah'. ');">⁵</span>

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