Reference for Gittin 8:5

ורבא מתרץ לטעמיה דכולי עלמא לפי שאין עדים מצויין לקיימו ורבנן בתראי לפרושי טעמיה דתנא קמא הוא דאתו

We have learnt: Our Mishnah says: RABBAN SIMEON BEN GAMALIEL SAYS, EVEN THE BEARER FROM ONE GOVERNORSHIP TO ANOTHER, and commenting on this R. Isaac said that there was a certain city in Eretz Israel, 'Assasioth by name,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [Horowitz, I. Palestine p. 63 identifies it with Essa, east of the Lake Kinnereth, which was in his view divided into two governorships, Essa and Gerasa.] ');">²</span>

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