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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>CM previously wrote:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>> I asked our magid shiur at daf yomi if he new of any source for a
sevara<BR>> why nashim can not testify. He directed me to the following
Chezkuni in Gen.<BR>> 18:15 quoting a Yalkut Shimoni:<BR>> Vatekachesh
Sarah Laimor: Mikan shehanashim pesulos l'aidus, lefi<BR>> shemekachshos
mipnai hayiroh.<BR>><BR>><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>RSM wrote:</FONT><BR>This can surely be intended as
no more than an asmachta. By the same logic<BR>one could quote Gen. 37:32 and
say "mikan shehagevarim pesulim le`edut, lefi<BR>shemeviim rayot kozevot".</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>CM responds:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The Cheskuni doesn't mean this is the source of the
halacha that nashim are psulos l'eidus. Mikan, he says, the Torah is only giving
us a perspective on the reason for the gezeiras hakasuv that we learn from the
pasuk "ve'amdu shnai ha'anashim" as we are told in Shovuos 30a. (Normally the
terminology of "asmachta" is used when the gemara brings a pasuk for a halacha
that is derabanan, not when the halacha is itself de'oraisa).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So this would explain why Gen 37:32 could not be
seen as a source for the notion that as you say - <FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3> "mikan shehagevarim pesulim le`edut, lefi
shemeviim rayot kozevot" because this would be counter to the halacha yodua that
men are kosher for eidus, so there can be no nesinas tam for such a halacha
that does not exist.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kol Tuv</FONT></DIV>
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