Study Rosh Hashanah folio 25A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
and that same day we saw the new moon in the evening in the west. R' Yoḥanan ben Nuri said: They are false witnesses, as it is impossible to see the new moon so soon after the last sighting of the waning moon. However, when they arrived in Yavne, Rabban Gamliel accepted them as witnesses without co
And there was another incident in which two witnesses came and said: We saw the new moon at its anticipated time, i.e., on the night of the 30th day of the previous month; however, on the following night, i.e., the start of the 31st, which is often the determinant of a full, 30-day month, it was
R' Dosa ben Horkinas disagreed and said: They are false witnesses; how can witnesses testify that a woman gave birth and the next day her belly is between her teeth, i.e., she is obviously still pregnant? If the new moon was already visible at its anticipated time, how could it not be seen a day la
R' Akiva went and found R' Yehoshua distressed that the head of the Great Sanhedrin was forcing him to desecrate the day that he maintained was Yom Kippur. In an attempt to console him, R' Akiva said to R' Yehoshua: I can learn from a verse that everything that Rabban Gamliel did in sanctifying the
R' Yehoshua then came to R' Dosa ben Horkinas, who said to him: If we come to debate and question the rulings of the court of Rabban Gamliel, we must debate and question the rulings of every court that has stood from the days of Moses until now. As it is stated: “Then Moses went up, and Aaron, Nada