Vayikra 5:1 · unit 14 · Shevuos 33b

Complete Passuk

וְנֶפֶשׁ כִּי־תֶחֱטָא וְשָׁמְעָה קוֹל אָלָה וְהוּא עֵד אוֹ רָאָה אוֹ יָדָע אִם־לוֹא יַגִּיד וְנָשָׂא עֲוֺנוֹ׃

Source Citation

Torah Temimah cites Shevuos 33b.

Sefaria — Shevuos 33b
E-Daf · Shevuos 33b

Core Text — Shevuos 33b

רַבִּי יוֹסֵי הַגְּלִילִי אוֹמֵר: הֲרֵי הוּא אוֹמֵר ״וְהוּא עֵד אוֹ רָאָה אוֹ יָדָע״ – בְּעֵדוּת הַמִּתְקַיֶּימֶת בִּרְאִיָּה בְּלֹא יְדִיעָה וּבִידִיעָה בְּלֹא רְאָיָה הַכָּתוּב מְדַבֵּר.

Rabbi Yose HaGelili says: Scripture says “and he is a witness or saw or knew” — the verse speaks of testimony that is established by seeing without knowing, or by knowing without seeing.

This limits the verse to forms of monetary testimony that can stand on either pure sight or pure knowledge (for example, a loan counted out before the witnesses), and excludes claims that cannot be established in that dual manner.

What Is Learned: The verse addresses monetary testimony that can be established by seeing without knowing or by knowing without seeing. Pure issur or lineage claims that cannot be established in that way fall outside the shevu’as ha-eidus structure of Vayikra 5:1.