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The Talmud answers: When Rav says his statement, he is referring to not every student, but only those such as Rav Kahana and Rav Asi, who needed to learn the halakhic traditions of Rav, but they did not need to learn the reasoning of Rav, as they were capable of conducting their own analysis.
R' Abbahu says: There are 10 ways in which cases of monetary law are different from cases of capital law, as was taught in the beginning of the chapter, and none of them is practiced with regard to a court hearing concerning an ox that is to be stoned, as it is treated as a case of monetary law, e
The Talmud asks: From where are these matters derived? Rav Aḥa bar Pappa says: As the verse states: “You shall not incline the judgment of your poor in his cause” (Exodus 23:6). He explains: You may not incline the judgment of, i.e., exert effort to find liable, your poor, but you may incline the j
The Talmud asks: Are there really 10 ways in which cases of monetary law are different from cases of capital law? There are only 9 differences recorded in the Mishnah. The Talmud questions this: But the Mishnah teaches 10 differences, not 9. The Talmud clarifies: Although there appear to be 10, ther
The Talmud answers: But there is another difference, as it is taught in a baraita (Tosefta 7:5): The court does not seat on the Sanhedrin a very old person or one who is castrated or one who has no children, as those who did not recently raise children may lack compassion. R' Yehuda adds: Even a cr