east, and
in the evening in the west"; said R. Jochanan, son of Nourri, "they are
false witnesses," but when they came to Jamnia, Rabban Gamaliel received
their evidence. Two other witnesses came, and said, "we saw the moon in
her season, but on the next evening of the intercalary day she was
invisible," and R. Gamaliel received them. Said R. Dosah, son of Arkenaz,
"they are false witnesses, for how can they testify of a woman being
delivered, and on the morrow she is still pregnant?" To him said R.
Joshua, "I approve thy words."

9. Rabban Gamaliel sent to (R. Joshua), "I order thee to come to me with
thy staff and money on the day of atonement, according to thy
reckoning."(298) R. Akivah went to (R. Joshua), and found him sorrowing.
He said to him, "I can prove that all Rabban Gamaliel has done is well
done, for it is said, 'These are the feasts of the Lord, even holy
convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons,'(299) or out of
their seasons; I have no other feasts but these." R. Joshua came to R.
Dose, son of Arkenaz. He said to him, "if we are to judge the tribunal of
Rabban Gamaliel, we must also judge the tribunals which have existed from
the days of Moses till now," for it is said, "Then went up Moses and
Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel."(300) "And
why were not the names of the elders mentioned, but to inform us that
every three men in Israel who compose a tribunal, are as a tribunal of
Moses?" R. Joshua took his staff and money in his hand, and went to Jamnia
to Rabban Gamaliel on the day when the atonement began, according to his
reckoning. Rabban Gamaliel stood up and kissed him on his head, saying to
him, "come in peace, my master and disciple--my master in wisdom, my
disciple in obeying my words."

Chapter III

1. "The Sanhedrin and all Israel saw (the new moon); the witnesses were
examined, but it became dark before they could say, 'Sanctified'?" "The
month is intercalary." "The Sanhedrin alone saw it?" "Two members must
stand up and testify before them, and they shall say, 'Sanctified,
sanctified.' " "Three composing a Sanhedrin saw it?" "Two of them must
stand up, and their assessors must be seated with the single member, and
before them they shall testify, and say, 'Sanctified, sanctified,' because
an individual cannot be trusted by himself alone."

2. All cornets are allowed, except (horns) of a heifer,(301) because it is
(written) horn.(302) Said Rabbi