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שֶׁהָיָה בַדִּין, וּמָה אִם עֵדוּת רִאשׁוֹנָה, שֶׁאֵין אוֹסְרַתָּה אִסּוּר עוֹלָם, אֵינָהּ מִתְקַיֶּמֶת בְּפָחוֹת מִשְּׁנַיִם — עֵדוּת אַחֲרוֹנָה שֶׁאוֹסְרַתָּה אִסּוּר עוֹלָם, אֵינוֹ דִין שֶׁלֹּא תִתְקַיֵּם בְּפָחוֹת מִשְּׁנַיִם! תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר: ”וְעֵד אֵין בָּהּ” — כָּל עֵדוּת שֶׁיֶּשׁ בָּהּ. קַל וָחֹמֶר לְעֵדוּת הָרִאשׁוֹנָה מֵעַתָּה: וּמָה אִם עֵדוּת אַחֲרוֹנָה שֶׁאוֹסְרַתָּה אִסּוּר עוֹלָם, הֲרֵי הִיא מִתְקַיֶּמֶת בְּעֵד אֶחָד — עֵדוּת הָרִאשׁוֹנָה שֶׁאֵין אוֹסְרַתָּה אִסּוּר עוֹלָם, אֵינוֹ דִין שֶׁתִּתְקַיֵּם בְּעֵד אֶחָד! תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר: ”כִּי מָצָא בָהּ עֶרְוַת דָּבָר”, וּלְהַלָּן הוּא אוֹמֵר: ”עַל פִּי שְׁנַיִם עֵדִים . . . יָקוּם דָּבָר”, מַה לְּהַלָּן עַל פִּי שְׁנַיִם עֵדִים, אַף כָּאן עַל פִּי שְׁנַיִם עֵדִים.
For logic would have dictated: that if the first testimony, which does not render her permanently forbidden, cannot be estab-lished by less than two [witnesses] —- [then] the last testimony, which does render her permanently forbidden, should cer-tainly not be established by less than two [witnesses]! But [the Torah] teaches (Numbers 5:13): And there was none to testify against her —- any manner of testimony which there may be against her. But now [the logic of] kal vachomer dic-tates in regard to the first testimony: that if the last testimony, which does render her permanently forbidden, can yet be es-tablished by one witness —- [then] the first testimony, which does not render her permanently forbidden, should certainly be established by one witness! But [the Torah] teaches (Deut. 24:1): for he found in her some immoral matter, and over there (Deut. 19:15) it says: By the testimony of two witnesses ... shall a matter be established —- just as over there it is by the testimony of two witnesses, here too it is by the testimony of two witnesses.
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