English of Core Text: Rabbi Yochanan said: Wherever the Sadducees attacked, their answer is beside them. They attacked the verse “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness” — what is written after it? “And God created the man in His image.”
On the daf / in context: The plural of “Naaseh” is immediately answered by the singular “Vayivra Elohim,” refuting any claim of multiple creators. (Again TT places the citation at 1:23.)
Type of Learning: Custom (adjacent singular verb answers plural)What Is Learned: The singular “And God created” that follows immediately refutes the heretical reading of the plural “Let us make.”