Rosh Hashanah 31b Part 4/4

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai enacted that witnesses go only to the place of the gathering, not after the Rosh Beis Din. Ameimar limits this to eidus of Kiddush HaChodesh, since a borrower is a servant to the lender. The Gemara then counts the nine takanos of Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai. Rav Papa and Rav Nachman bar Yitzchak disagree over the ninth: kerem revai or the lashon shel zehoris.

Key points

• Ameimar limits the takana to witnesses for Kiddush HaChodesh, because a borrower is a servant to the lender.
• By the takana, Kohanim go up to the duchan without sandals, lest people doubt their kehuna.
• One takana stopped a ger setting aside a quarter for his kinnim, lest the money be misused.
• Rav Papa makes the ninth takana the repeal of bringing kerem revai near Yerushalayim up.
• For Rav Nachman bar Yitzchak, the ninth concerned the lashon shel zehoris, so nobody would see it and be distressed.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Witnesses and the Rosh Beis Din
2. 0:46Ameimar, Rav Ashi and the woman
3. 4:01Kohanim and sandals on the duchan
4. 5:05Counting the nine takanos
5. 8:14Kerem revai according to Rav Papa
6. 14:02Rav Nachman bar Yitzchak on the zehoris
7. 16:11Why each Amora rejects the other
8. 20:14Recap of the sugya

Topics

• Kiddush HaChodesh
• Kerem Revai
• Lashon Shel Zehoris