to death," so it was taken to mean that individual witnesses who witnesses the crime, one by one, in isolation from each other, were insufficient to convict. Similarly, a Baraita taught that prescribes, "At the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death," to cover instances where two persons see the wrongdoer, one from one window and the other from another window, without seeing each other, in which case the evidence could not be joined to form a set of witnesses sufficient to convict. Even if they both witnessed the offence from the same window, one after the other, their testimony could not be joined to form a set of witnesses sufficient to convict. Rabbi Ishmael the son of Rabbi Jose commanded Rabbi Judah the Prince not to engage in a lawsuit against three parties, for one would be an opponent and the other two would be witnesses for the other side. Rabbi Ishmael taught that the avoidance of danger to one’s own life takes precedence over the prohibition of shedding blood in . Rabbi Ishmael cited , in which the right to defend one’s home at night takes precedence over the prohibition of killing, to support the proposition that the avoidance of danger to human life takes precedence over the laws of the Sabbath. For in , in spite of all the other considerations, it is lawful to kill the thief. So even if in the case of the thief — where doubt exists whether the thief came to take money or life, and even though teaches that the shedding of blood pollutes the land, so that the Divine Presence departs from Israel — yet it was lawful to save oneself at the cost of the thief’s life, how much more may one suspend the laws of the Sabbath to save human life. Numbers chapter 36 Chapter 8 of tractate Bava Batra in the Mishnah and Babylonian Talmud and chapter 7 of tractate Bava Batra in the Tosefta interpreted the laws of inheritance in and . Rava interpreted the words "This is the thing" in to teach that the law prohibiting intermarriage between the tribes held only for the generation of Zelophehad's daughters. A Baraita taught that Zelophehad's daughters were wise, Torah students, and righteous. And a Baraita taught that Zelophehad's daughters were equal in merit, and that is why the order of their names varies