תלמוד על ראש השנה 2:1

¹³⁸This decides practice. A judge who knows of the case has to disqualify himself and appear as a witness in another court. The Babli agrees, Roš Haššanah 25b, Bava qamma 90b. Rebbi Simeon ben Ioḥai stated: You shall sanctify the Fiftieth Year¹⁴⁰Lev. 25:10.. You shall sanctify years but not months¹⁴¹The “sanctification of the month” (Note 119) really is a sanctification of the Day of the New Moon (Num. 28:11–15), not of the entire month. But the Jubilee year itself is holy.
In the Babli 10b, this is in the name of R. Eliezer or R. Eleazar; in Roš Haššanah8b in the name of “the rabbis.”. But did we not state¹⁴²Mishnah Roš Haššanah 2:8.: “The president of the court says: sanctified”? What means sanctified? Confirmed¹⁴³The day is confirmed as one of additional religious services.. It was stated: For sanctifying months one starts¹⁴⁴Polling the judges’ opinions. with the most senior person. Rebbi Ḥiyya bar Ada said, the Mishnah says this: “The president of the court says: sanctified.” It was stated, for intercalation of the (month) [year]¹⁴⁵The text in brackets, from Roš Haššanah, is the correct one. The Sanhedrin text, in parentheses, is a scribal error. one starts from the side¹⁴⁶The senior judge sat in the middle, the most junior judge sat on the last chair to his left or right. One starts polling the most junior judge.. Rebbi Zebida said, but this lower house¹⁴⁷The Patriarch’s court, the only one empowered to determine the calendar, was held in low esteem by him. do not proceed in this way, for they did not hear what Rebbi Ḥiyya bar Marius¹⁴⁸It is impossible to determine whether מרייא or מרייא is the correct reading. and Rebbi Jonah, Rebbi Abba bar Ḥiyya said in the name of Rebbi Joḥanan: For lengthening the month one starts with the most senior person, for intercalating the year one starts from the side. When Rebbi Joḥanan was participating as the most junior person, they told him, say: “this year is sanctified in its intercalation.” He said, “this year is sanctified in intercalation.” Rebbi Jonathan said, look at the language which the smith’s son¹⁴⁹R. Johanan bar Nappaha, “son of the bellows-blower.” taught us. If he had said, “in its intercalation,” I would have said that this refers to the eleven days by which the solar year exceeds the lunar one, but [he said] “in intercalation”, that the Sages added thirty days to it¹⁵⁰Any intercalary year has an additional month of 30 days; in the computed calendar this is Adar I.. Rebbi Jacob bar Aḥa, Rebbi Yasa in the name of Rebbi Joḥanan: For intercalation one follows the date of ordination. In the Academy one follows usage; each one gives his opinion at his place and sums up. For example, Rebbi Ḥanina¹⁵¹He probably is R. Hinena, the student of R. Johanan in Tiberias, not R. Hanina, his teacher at Sepphoris started, Rebbi Joḥanan and Rebbi Simeon ben Laqisch summed up. Rebbi Abba bar Zavda started, Rebbi Yasa and Rebbi Immi¹⁵²This is the correct text, not “R. Hiyya, R. Yasa, and R. Immi” as in Roš Haššanah since R. Hiyya (bar Abba), while also a student of R. Yasa, is not known to have participated in an Academy with him. summed up. Rebbi Ḥaggai started, Rebbi Jonah and Rebbi Yose summed up. Rebbi Cahana was ordained before Rebbi Jacob bar Aḥa, but Rebbi Jacob bar Aḥa participated in intercalation before Rebbi Cahana was invited. He said, the person who formulated the tradition does not respect it for himself¹⁵³By his own teaching in the name of R. Johanan, he should have insisted that R. Cahana be invited first..

“And one calls a midwife for her from place to place.” As what we have stated there⁵⁶Mishnah Roš Haššanah 2:5.: “Not only these but even a midwife who comes to assist at a birth.⁵⁷The witnesses of the New Moon and the midwife who leave their Sabbath boundaries to testify or to help are treated like the residents of the town in which they exercise their duty.”