(R. Yirmeyah citing R. Shmuel bar Rav Yitzchak): This teaches that we judge amidst Safek. (We give a final verdict before the witness says exactly what he heard.)

How does this apply? [If we heard that] Ploni killed someone, he is judged before the witnesses come.

Rebuttal (R. Yosi): Can we take someone from the market and disgrace him [based on mere rumors]?!

Rather, if [we heard that] Ploni killed someone, and that there are witnesses that he killed someone, we seize him until the witnesses come.

Question: Do we tell [the witness] to blaspheme?!

Answer: Rather, [he says] "that name that I said in front of you, he cursed it and with it he cursed it ("Yosi should strike Yosi"). The witnesses need not tear, for they tore at the time they heard.

(Reish Lakish): This teaches that judges who accepted testimony while standing, their verdict is valid. (He understands that the judges stand before the witness explicitly says what he heard, unlike the simple reading of the Mishnah. Alternatively, if testimony received while standing were invalid, the Mishnah should stress that they may not stand until after they hear.)

We learn six matters from this. We learn like what R. Shmuel bar Rav Yitzchak taught (that we judge amidst Safek) and we learn what Reish Lakish taught (that if judges accepted testimony while standing, their verdict is valid;

We learn that one who heard [blasphemy] from one who heard is obligated to tear;

We learn that if a witness testified, the second [witness] can say "also I heard like him", and the third says "also I like him";

We learn that this is one of the tears that one may not sew back normally;

We learn that since they know from the beginning that it is Hash-m's special name, he needs to tear. (They stand and tear before the witness explicitly says the curse - HAGAHOS R. DINAR. It seems that this is like my first explanation above in Reish Lakish; the Mishnah means that the judges stand and tear before the witness explicitly says the curse. However, what forces the Yerushalmi to explain like this? - PF. Or, perhaps this means that they tear once they know from one witness, before hearing the other say "also I like him." Below (37a), we conclude that one tears even for Kinuyim! Here, one might have thought that the 'Mekalel' said only a euphemism, and one does not tear until two witnesses say that he cursed more than a mere euphemism.)