Mesorat%20hashas for Yevamot 201:12

מ"ט דת"ק דתניא זקנים שנים ואין בית דין שקול מוסיפין עליהן עוד אחד הרי כאן שלשה ור' יהודה זקני שנים זקנים שנים ואין בית דין שקול מוסיפין עליהן עוד אחד הרי כאן ה'

like judges.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The appropriate texts in the original Hebrew are dictated by members of the court to the levir and his sister-in-law, respectively, who must repeat them precisely as they hear them. Cf. Sot. 32a. ');">³²</span> R. Judah said: In the presence of five.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Tosef. Yeb. XII. Our Mishnah is in agreement with the first Tanna of this Baraitha. ');">³³</span> What is the first Tanna's reason? — Because it was taught: Elders<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XXV, 7. ');">³⁴</span> [implies] two; but as no court may be evenly balanced,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' An even number of judges might, when a difference of opinion arose, be equally divided and this would make a decision by majority impossible. ');">³⁵</span>

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