Commentary for Yevamot 243:5

<big><strong>מתני׳</strong></big> מעידין לאור הנר ולאור הלבנה ומשיאין על פי בת קול מעשה באחד שעמד על ראש ההר ואמר איש פלוני בן פלוני ממקום פלוני מת הלכו ולא מצאו שם אדם והשיאו את אשתו

IT ONCE HAPPENED THAT A MAN WAS STANDING ON THE TOP OF A HILL AND CRIED, SO-AND-SO SON OF SO-AND-SO OF SUCH-AND-SUCH A PLACE IS DEAD', BUT WHEN THEY WENT [TO THE TOP OF THE HILL] THEY FOUND NO ONE THERE. HIS WIFE, HOWEVER, WAS PERMITTED TO REMARRY.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. supra n. 4. ');">¹⁹</span> AGAIN, IT HAPPENED AT ZALMON<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [Identified with Selamin (Selame) in Galilee (v. Josephus Wars II, 20, 6), the modern Hirbet Selame, N.E of the El Battauf valley 20 km from Sepphoris, v. Klein S, MGWJ, 1927, p. 266]. ');">²⁰</span> THAT A MAN DECLARED, 'I AM SO-AND-SO SON OF SO-AND-SO; A SERPENT HAS BITTEN ME, AND I AM DYING'; AND THOUGH WHEN THEY WENT [TO EXAMINE THE CORPSE] THEY DID NOT RECOGNIZE HIM, THEY NEVERTHELESS PERMITTED HIS WIFE TO REMARRY. <b><i>GEMARA</i></b>. Rabbah b. Samuel stated: A Tanna taught that Beth Shammai ruled that a woman may not be permitted to marry again on the evidence of a mere voice<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. supra n. 4. ');">¹⁹</span> and Beth Hillel ruled that she may be permitted to marry again on the evidence of a mere voice.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Tosef. Naz. I. ');">²¹</span>

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