Talmud for Rosh Hashanah 44:11
<big><strong>מתני׳</strong></big> בראשונה היו משיאין משואות משקלקלו הכותים התקינו שיהו שלוחין יוצאין
and the man who hired you shall be laid out on the post.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For a flogging.');"><sup>14</sup></span> There and then they ordained that testimony should be received only from persons who were known to them. <big><b>MISHNAH: </b></big>ORIGINALLY THEY USED TO LIGHT<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Hebrew word is massi'in, which literally means 'raise up'.');"><sup>15</sup></span> BEACONS.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To convey the news of the New Moon to the diaspora in Babylon.');"><sup>16</sup></span>
Jerusalem Talmud Rosh Hashanah
May people who know those who know him desecrate the Sabbath for him23The translation and the reading of G follows Liebermann’s correction of Ginzberg’s text (Tosephta kiFshutahMo`ed p. 1028). There is nobody known to the Court who knows the witness personally, but there is one known to the court who knows a reliable person who can testify that the witness is not a Boethusian. If the new moon is seen on a Sabbath, may the person known to the court go with this acquaintance to certify the witness?? Let us hear from the following24Tosephta 1:16; Babli 22b.: “[Rebbi]25Corrector’s addition from the Tosephta, not in G. Noharai (here) <ben>26The <genizah text>is to be accepted. Shanai said, it happened that I descended to Usha27The place where the successor to the Synhedrion was constituted in the aftermath of the Bar Kochba uprising. to testify for one witness28The witness not of seeing the new moon but the reliability of the witness for the new moon.. They did not need me but I looked for a pretext to see my colleagues.”
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