Musar for Yevamot 242:12

ודלמא קמצא בעלמא שכיב ליה ואסיקו ליה על שמיה דקאמרי כן וכן רבנן הוו התם כן וכן ספדני הוו התם:

WHETHER [SUCH STATEMENT WAS MADE] WITH THE INTENTION [OF TENDERING EVIDENCE] OR WAS MADE WITH NO SUCH INTENTION [IT IS VALID]. R. JUDAH B. BABA SAID: WITH AN ISRAELITE [THE EVIDENCE IS VALID] EVEN IF THE MAN HAD THE INTENTION [OF ACTING AS WITNESS]. IN THE CASE OF AN IDOLATER, HOWEVER, THE EVIDENCE IS INVALID IF HIS INTENTION WAS [TO ACT AS WITNESS]. GEMARA. Is it not possible that they<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The children spoken of in our Mishnah. ');">⁴¹</span> did not go?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To carry out what they said they were going to do, and that the man in question was in fact not dead. How then could such unreliable evidence be acted upon! ');">⁴²</span> — Rab Judah replied in the name of Samuel: [Our Mishnah deals with a case] where they<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The children spoken of in our Mishnah. ');">⁴¹</span>

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