Halakhah for Yoma 165:7
וה"מ לענין אומדנא דממונא אבל הכא ספק נפשות הוא
Surely that is self-evident, for it is a possibility of danger to human life and 'in the case of the possibility of danger to human life we take a more lenient view'!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Shab. 129a.');"><sup>6</sup></span> - It refers to a case in which two more people are present who say that he does not need it.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Two witnesses are considered sufficient evidence (Deut. XIX, 15) and no increase of their number either strengthens, or if they were counter-witnesses, by reason of superior numbers, weakens their original testimony.');"><sup>7</sup></span> And although R'Safra said that 'Two are as a hundred and a hundred are as two'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And yet on the strength of the two experts who say 'he needs it', he is fed.');"><sup>8</sup></span>
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