Reference for Rosh Hashanah 43:14
<big><strong>גמ׳</strong></big> מאי אחר חד
THEY MAY TAKE CUDGELS [TO DEFEND THEMSELVES].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Although it was forbidden to carry on Sabbath.');"><sup>17</sup></span> IF THE DISTANCE IS GREAT [TO JERUSALEM], THEY MAY TAKE PROVISIONS WITH THEM, SINCE FOR AS MUCH AS A NIGHT AND A DAY'S JOURNEY<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If the distance was much larger there would be no point in their evidence since in the absence of witnesses the New Moon is on the first day.');"><sup>18</sup></span> THEY WERE ALLOWED TO PROFANE SABBATH AND GO FORTH TO TESTIFY TO THE APPEARANCE OF THE NEW MOON, AS IT SAYS: THESE ARE THE APPOINTED SEASONS OF THE LORD. WHICH YE SHALL PROCLAIM IN THEIR APPOINTED SEASON.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XXIII, 4. V. supra, p. 89. n. 5.');"><sup>19</sup></span> <big><b>MISHNAH: </b></big>IF THAT ONE<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Gemara, infra.');"><sup>20</sup></span> IS NOT KNOWN TO THEM [THE BETH DIN IN JERUSALEM], THEY [THE BETH DIN OF HIS OWN PLACE] SEND ANOTHER WITH HIM TO CERTIFY HIM [AS RELIABLE]. ORIGINALLY TESTIMONY WITH REGARD TO [THE APPEARANCE OF] THE NEW MOON WAS RECEIVED FROM ANYONE. WHEN, HOWEVER, THE BOETHUSIANS<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The followers of a certain Boethus, who seems to have lived in the second century B.C.E. Like the Sadducees, they rejected the Oral Law and opposed the Rabbis. [MS.M. 'Minim' (v. Glos. s.v. Min.) ]');"><sup>21</sup></span> ADOPTED EVIL COURSES, IT WAS ORDAINED THAT TESTIMONY SHOULD BE RECEIVED ONLY FROM PERSONS KNOWN [TO THE BETH DIN]. <big><b>GEMARA: </b></big>What is meant by ANOTHER? [I would naturally suppose], one other person.