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Mishnayos Eduyos Perek 1 Mishnah 6

עדיות פרק א׳ משנה ו׳

6

Rabbi Judah said: “If so, why do they record the opinion of a single person among the many to set it aside? So that if a man shall say, ‘Thus have I received the tradition’, it may be said to him, ‘According to the [refuted] opinion of that individual did you hear it.’”

אָמַר רַבִּי יְהוּדָה, אִם כֵּן לָמָּה מַזְכִּירִין דִּבְרֵי הַיָּחִיד בֵּין הַמְרֻבִּין לְבַטָּלָה. שֶׁאִם יֹאמַר הָאָדָם כָּךְ אֲנִי מְקֻבָּל, יֵאָמֵר לוֹ, כְּדִבְרֵי אִישׁ פְּלוֹנִי שָׁמָעְתָּ:

ו׳
Bartenura

למה מזכירין דברי היחיד בין המרובין – in order to nullify them. An individual [opinion] that was not followed by a single Jewish court like his words and they are rejected and nullified, why do we mention them at all? And we respond that if a person would say: Such is my received [tradition] and he would be astonished when he sees that no one is acting according to his received tradition, they would say to him: according to the words of that individual you heard and those words were rejected.

למה מזכירין דברי היחיד בין המרובין. כדי לבטלן. יחיד שלא עשה שום ב״ד כדבריו והן דחויים ובטלין, למה מזכירין אותן כלל. ומשני, שאם יאמר אדם כך אני מקובל ויתמה כשרואה שאין עושין כקבלתו, יאמרו לו כדברי איש פלוני שמעת ונדחו דבריו: