Talmud for Rosh Hashanah 44:3
וחד לא מהימן והתניא מעשה ברבי נהוראי שהלך אצל העד להעיד עליו בשבת באושא
But is [the word of] one person accepted,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In giving evidence regarding the New Moon.');"><sup>2</sup></span> seeing that the word judgment<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In the verse, For it is a statute for Israel, a judgment for the God of Jacob. Ps. LXXXI, 5. 'Judgment' could be delivered only on the evidence of at least two witnesses.');"><sup>3</sup></span> is used in connection with it? But in fact what is meant by THAT ONE?
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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