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Of all the amora’im, Abaye and Rava are presented as epitomizing the discussions that take place in the Gemara.
In all of their arguments in the Gemara, the halakha always follows Rava’s opinion, with only six exceptions. Those six are referred to by the Gemara by the acronym YAL KGM:
Abaye believes that any testimony that they gave from the time of their original statement can no longer be trusted, since from that time it is clear that they were unreliable.
Rava argues that the whole concept of zomemim is a hiddush – a new idea – established by the Torah, since logically there is no reason to trust the second group of witnesses more than the first.
We explore this wonderful relationship that kinda formed the basis for all amoraic discourse.