Dies sind diejenigen, die (als Zeugen der rabbinischen Verordnung) für ungültig erklärt wurden: diejenigen, die mit Kuvia spielen [Knochen, mit denen im Versprechen (der Auszahlung) gespielt wurde, was gegen das rabbinische Diktum verstößt, dass "eine Bürgschaft (Asmachta) keinen Erwerb bewirkt". Diejenigen, die dies tun, sind "Räuber" gemäß der rabbinischen Verordnung.], Diejenigen, die Zinsen verleihen [Sie sind keine "Räuber" nach dem Tora-Gesetz, die (als Zeugen) für ungültig erklärt werden, denn es (das Interesse) wird bereitwillig gegeben.], Diejenigen die Tauben rennen, [wie "kuvia" (oben), nämlich: "Wenn deine Taube vor meiner Taube hereinkommt, etc."], diejenigen, die mit Shevi'ith handeln, von denen die Tora schreibt ( 3. Mose 25: 6): "Und du sollst essen"— und nicht für den Handel. "Da alle von ihnen im Verdacht stehen, bereit zu sein, für den Gewinn zu verstoßen, werden sie im Verdacht stehen, fälschlicherweise für ein Bestechungsgeld auszusagen.] und Knechte [Sie sind durch das Tora-Gesetz ungültig, ein Fortiori aus (dem Fall von ) eine Frau (die nicht kasher ist, um auszusagen).] Dies ist die Regel: Alle Zeugnisse, für die eine Frau nicht kasher ist, auch diese sind nicht kasher für. [Denn es gibt Zeugnis, für das eine Frau kasher ist, zB das Zeugnis, dass der Ehemann einer Frau gestorben ist, damit sie wieder heiraten darf, oder das Zeugnis, dass eine Sotah (eine Frau, die der Untreue verdächtigt wird) ehebrecherisch war, damit sie nicht trinkt (der Entwurf der Sotah). Und diese, die ungültig sind Nach der rabbinischen Verordnung sind sie auch kasher (für ein solches Zeugnis). Aber diejenigen, die durch das Tora-Gesetz wegen Übertretung ungültig wurden, wurden von den Weisen nicht als kasher für das Zeugnis angesehen, das eine Frau geben kann.]
Bartenura on Mishnah Rosh Hashanah
משחקים בקוביא – bones that they would play with as a pledge, for the Rabbis stated that an obligation undertaken that one does not expect to be called upon to fulfill (e.g., a seller who agrees to pay exaggerated penalties if he fails to deliver merchandise by a certain time) which is not binding -and they are robbers according to [the decree of] the Rabbis.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Rosh Hashanah
Introduction
This mishnah is basically taken word for word from Sanhedrin 3:3. It is brought here again because the previous mishnah mentioned the possibility that a person would be disqualified from testifying.
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ומלוי בריבית – they are not called robbers according to the Torah to invalidate them [to serving as witnesses or judges] for he gives him [a loan] on his own.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Rosh Hashanah
And these are they which are not qualified [to be witnesses or judges]: A dice player, a usurer, pigeon racers, or traffickers in Seventh Year produce, and slaves. There are five categories of people who are disqualified from acting as witnesses or judges: 1) The first is a dice player, in other words a gambler. Such a person cannot testify since he is known to be a liar, especially with regards to monetary matters. Another reason is that he doesn’t participate constructively in building society. 2) A usurer. He is also probably considered to not be trustworthy in monetary matters. 3) A pigeon racer. Racing pigeons was a form of gambling. 4) Those who sell produce grown during the Seventh Year. According to Lev. 25:5-7 produce grown in the fields during the Seventh Year may be eaten by its owners, but it may not be sold. One who therefore sells Seventh Year produce is engaging in forbidden business practices which according to our mishnah make him not trustworthy to testify or act as a judge. 5) A slave referring to a slave who has not been freed.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Rosh Hashanah
מפריחי יונים – that is a form of dice, if your dove comes in before my dove.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Rosh Hashanah
This is the general rule: any testimony for which a woman is not qualified, they too are not qualified. The rules of acceptance of testimony from slaves are the same as those for a woman. Any case where they did allow the testimony of a woman, such as testimony concerning the death of another woman’s husband (see Mishnah Yevamot 15:4), they also allowed the testimony of a slave
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Bartenura on Mishnah Rosh Hashanah
וסוחרי שביעית – They do business with Seventh Year produce, and the All-Merciful said, “to eat,” but not for business, and since they were suspected of violating on the religion for the sake of money, they were suspected of bringing false testimony on a bribe. -
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והעבדים – they are invalid from the Torah, as derived by a fortiori from [the case of] a woman.
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עדות שאין האשה כשרה לה – since there is testimony that a woman is fit for, such as to testify to a woman that he husband died in order to permit her to marry foreigners, and also to testify on the woman suspected of committing adultery who had been defiled that she should not drink [the accursed, bitter waters]. And those invalidations [made by] the Rabbis are also valid [to testify], but if they are ineligible to testify from the Torah, the Sages did not make them fit for the testimony of a woman, and even though the slave and the woman were deemed fit, they are ineligible to give testimony from the Torah.
