אמר רבינא הכא במאי עסקינן כגון שהיתה שניה בשעת כפירת ראשונה קרובין בנשותיהן ונשותיהן גוססות מהו דתימא רוב גוססים למיתה קמ"ל (השתא מיהא לא שכיב):
and their wives were dying: you might have thought [because we say] the majority of dying people actually die [the second set are eligible],<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because we assume the wives are counted as dead, therefore the witnesses are no longer related to each other; and since they are now eligible, the first set should be exempt, because the second set are there to give evidence.');"><sup>3</sup></span> therefore he teaches us [that they are not], because as yet the wives are not dead.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The first set are therefore liable, because they alone are eligible, and by withholding their testimony they make the claimant incur a loss.');"><sup>4</sup></span>
Tosefta Megillah
There is no difference between a holiday and Shabbat except for [work pertaining to preparation of] food. R' Yehuda said "also [work pertaining to] allowing for [preparation of] food. R' Nechunya ben Hakana said "Yom Kippur is like Shabbat with respect to payment for civil damages." There is no difference between the second set of three fasts and the last set of seven fasts except for blowing [the shofar] and closing the markets. There is no difference between one who swears off benefit from his fellow and one who swears off food from his fellow except for walking through the others' property and implements that are not used for food.
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Tosefta Ketubot
Rabbi Nehunya ben Ha-Kanah says: A man who has sex with his sister, with his paternal aunt, with his maternal aunt, with his wife's sister, with his brother's wife, with his uncle's wife, with a niddah—they do not have the fine [since he is liable for death]. And so too Rabbi Nehunya ben Ha-Kanah used to say: Yom Kippur is like Shabbat for monetary fines [on both, for many transgressions, he is exempt from monetary fines because he is liable for death or karet].
