אי הכי מאי למימרא מהו דתימא מספיקא לא מחללינן שבתא קמ"ל
Has it not been taught, 'On one occasion R'Nehorai accompanied the witness to testify to his bona fides on Sabbath in Usha'?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' At the time when the Beth din was in Usha.');"><sup>4</sup></span> - I can reply that there was another witness along with R'Nehorai, and the reason why he was not mentioned was out of respect for R'Nehorai.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., so as not to put him on the same footing as R. Nehorai. Cf. Git. ');"><sup>5</sup></span> R'Ashi said: In R'Nehorai's case there was [already] another witness in Usha,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This witness may have been either one who had seen the new moon, or one who could testify to the bona fides of the man who has seen it. V. trvx Tosaf. s.v. .');"><sup>6</sup></span> and R'Nehorai went to join his testimony with his.
Tosefta Megillah
When would they light the torches (מַשִּׂיאִין not מסיעין)? It was on the evening of the additional day (see Rosh Hashanah 22b:15). How would they do it? If it fell on Erev Shabbat or Shabbat, they light the torches on behalf [of the new month] after Shabbat. Said Rabbi Eliezer son of Rabbi Tzadok, this is how the fellowship that was in Jerusalem conducted itself: Some went to a house of feasting, and others to a house of mourning, and others to a betrothal feast, and others to a wedding feast, [and] others to the "week of the son" (i.e., celebrating the birth of a baby boy), and others to the "gathering of bones" (preceding a funeral, see Moed Katan 1:5). [With respect to] the week of the son and the gathering of bones, the week of the son takes precedence to the gathering of bones. [With respect to] the house of feasting and the house of mourning, the house of feasting takes precedence over the house of mourning. Rabbi Yishmael would give precedence to the house of mourning over everything else, as it says (Ecc. 7:2), "It is better to go to a house of mourning [than to go to a house of feasting]." Rabbi Meir says in the name of Rabbi Akiva, what do we learn from "and the living will place it in his heart (ibid.)"? Perform [an act of kindness] and they will perform it for you; accompany [the dead] so they will accompany you; eulogize, so they will eulogize you; and bury, so they will bury you.
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