Halakhah for Nedarim 15:9

אמר ליה רב אחא לרב אשי שמתיה ושרו ליה בחלמיה מאי א''ל כשם שאי אפשר לבר בלא תבן

I but if they had only learnt [Mishnah],<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So Rashi and Ran on the basis of our text. Mishnah is the law in broad outline, which characterises the whole of our present Mishnah, as compiled by R. Judah I. Hilketha (halachah) (law, rule) would appear to connote here the Talmudic discussion thereon, i.e., the amoraic development of the Mishnah. For tanu ([H],) referring to amoraic teaching instead of Tannaitic. cf. Kaplan, Redaction of the Talmud, pp. 209 seq. Ran, Asheri, and Tosaf, offer another interpretation, based on a slightly different reading: They must have taught law, but not merely learnt it (themselves). ');">⁹</span> they cannot lift the ban; but if such as have studied <i>halachah</i> are unavailable, then even those who have only learnt Mishnah], but had not studied [<i>halachah</i>] will do. But if even such are unavailable, let him go and sit at the cross-roads, and extend greetings<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'give peace' — the usual form of a Jewish greeting. ');">¹⁰</span> to ten men, until he finds ten men who have studied <i>halachah</i>.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Tosaf.: the greetings of ten men at the cross-roads will remove his grief; but ten scholars are necessary for the removal of the ban. ');">¹¹</span> Rabina asked R. Ashi: If he knew [in his dream] the person who placed him tinder a ban, can this person lift the ban? — He answered: He might have been appointed [God's] messenger to ban him, but not to revoke it. R. Aha asked R. Ashi: What if one was both banned and readmitted<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'it was loosened for him'. ');">¹²</span> in his dream? — Said he to him: Just as grain is impossible without straw,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. Jer. XXIII, 28. ');">¹³</span>

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