Ce sont ceux qui sont invalides (en tant que témoins par ordonnance rabbbinique): ceux qui jouent avec la kuvia [les os joués avec en gage (de déboursement), en violation du dicton rabbinique selon lequel «une caution (asmachta) n'effectue pas l'acquisition». Ceux qui le font sont des «voleurs» par ordonnance rabbinique.], Ceux qui prêtent à intérêt [Ils ne sont pas des «voleurs» par la loi de la Torah à invalider (en tant que témoins), car cela (l'intérêt) est volontairement donné.], Ceux qui pigeons de course, [comme "kuvia" (ci-dessus), à savoir: "Si votre pigeon entre avant mon pigeon, etc."], ceux qui font le commerce [produisent de] shevi'ith, [dont la Torah écrit ( Lévitique 25: 6): "Et ce sera à vous de manger"— et non pour le commerce. "Parce que tous ceux-ci sont soupçonnés d'être prêts à transgresser pour le gain, ils sont soupçonnés d'être prêts à témoigner faussement pour un pot-de-vin.], et les esclaves [Ils sont invalides par la loi de la Torah, a fortiori de (l'exemple de ) une femme, (qui n'est pas kasher pour témoigner).] C'est la règle: Tous les témoignages selon lesquels une femme n'est pas kasher pour, ceux-ci aussi ne sont pas kasher. [Car il y a un témoignage qu'une femme est kasher pour, Par exemple, témoigner que le mari d'une femme est décédé, afin qu'elle soit autorisée à se remarier, ou témoigner qu'une sotah (une femme soupçonnée d'infidélité) était adultère, afin qu'elle ne boive pas (le breuvage du sotah). Et ceux-ci, qui sont invalides par ordonnance rabbinique, sont également kasher (pour un tel témoignage). Mais ceux qui ont été invalidés par la loi de la Torah à cause de la transgression n'ont pas été considérés comme kasher par les sages pour le témoignage qu'une femme peut donner.]
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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Bartenura on Mishnah Rosh Hashanah
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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Bartenura on Mishnah Rosh Hashanah
והעבדים – they are invalid from the Torah, as derived by a fortiori from [the case of] a woman.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Rosh Hashanah
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.
