8.3 Makkos Daf 06 A (6 lines Up)SummaryWe only consider the people who are coming to establish the matter.Question: How do we decide if a passul is a witness or not?Rava: We say to him: Did you come (to Beis Din) to observe, or to testify?If they came to observe, we disregard them and the testimony stands.Rabbi Yehuda quoting Shmuel: The _halacha_ follows Rabbi Yosi.Rav Nachman: The halacha follows Rebbi.Mishna:Two are watching (a crime) from one window and two from another window and an individual is warning ( _hasra’ah_ ) from in between.If some of them see each other , it is considered one _eidus_ . Otherwise they’re considered two sets, and if only two are huzam, they are punished for their crime and the criminal is punished for his crime (because there are two valid witnesses against him).Rabbi Yosi: Nobody is killed unless he received a _hasra’ah_ from both witnesses as it states: “He shall be killed by the mouth of two witnesses”.An alternate explanation of the verse: “By the mouth of two witnesses” teaches that Sanhedrin cannot hear from a translator. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.