Talmud for Rosh Hashanah 44:7
בראשונה היו מקבלין עדות החדש מכל אדם וכו': תנו רבנן מה קלקול קלקלו הבייתוסין פעם אחת בקשו בייתוסין להטעות את חכמים שכרו שני בני אדם בד' מאות זוז אחד משלנו ואחד משלהם
Said R'Kahana: Not only [in such a case] do we take the word of 'Ulla who is a great man, but we take the word of any ordinary man. What is the reason? Because whenever a thing is bound to come to light later on, men do not lie about it. It has been taught to the same effect: If a man comes from the other end of the world and says, The Beth din have sanctified the New Moon, his word is taken.
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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