Halakhah for Rosh Hashanah 41:2
לוי אקלע לבבל בחדסר בתשרי אמר בסים תבשילא דבבלאי ביומא רבה דמערבא אמרי ליה אסהיד אמר להו לא שמעתי מפי ב"ד מקודש
He said [to the people there]: How good and sweet is the dish of the Babylonians on the great day of the West.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., this is the Day of Atonement in Palestine, and you are eating, or you are ready to break your fast, cf. p. 86, n. 10.');"><sup>3</sup></span> They said to him, Testify [that this is the tenth day].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And we will keep this day too.');"><sup>4</sup></span> He replied: I did not [personally] hear the Beth din [in Jerusalem proclaim] 'sanctified'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., that the day was sanctified as New Moon and therefore he could not testify, although he knew from independent sources that this was rcugn asuen only ten days before, v. infra 21b. [MS.M.: ' (proclaim) ', 'prolonged' instead of ].');"><sup>5</sup></span>
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