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Or perhaps he is liable for his oath concerning each and every claim made by each claimant.
The Talmud suggests: Come and hear a proof from that which R' Ḥiyya taught in a baraita: There are 20 sin-offerings here that the defendant must bring. The Talmud elaborates: What are the circumstances of the baraita? If the defendant specified each claim of each of the claimants in his oath, does R
§ The Mishnah teaches that if one accuses another: You raped or you seduced my daughter, and the other says: I did not rape and I did not seduce your daughter, to which the father replied: I administer an oath to you, and the defendant said: Amen, the defendant is liable to bring a guilt-offering i
Rava says: To what case is this explanation of the opinion of R' Shimon compared? It is compared to a case where a person said to another: Give me back my wheat and barley and spelt that are in your possession, and the other said to him: On my oath your wheat is not in my possession; and it was t
Abaye said to Rava: Are the two cases comparable? There, in the case of the grain, the defendant denies only the other’s claim of wheat, but he does not deny his claim of barley and spelt. Here, the defendant denies the entire matter, as he claims that he never raped or seduced the man’s daughte