Testimony in the Synagogue
[If] he stood in the synagogue and said, “I adjure you that if you know any testimony for me, you should come and bear testimony for me,” they are exempt unless he directs himself to them.
Adapted from the translation of Joshua Kulp.
Notes
Text in brackets appears in the original translation.
Credits
m. Shevu‘ot 4:10, adapted from Mishnah Yomit, trans. Joshua Kulp, www.sefaria.org. Originally from https://learn.conservativeyeshiva.org. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) License.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 2: Emerging Judaism.
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