English: “You shall not cut yourselves” — It was taught: “Lo tisgodedu” — do not form separate groups, for example one court in one city of which half rule according to Beis Shammai and half according to Beis Hillel.
On the daf / in context: The same root is expounded in a second sense: the prohibition of creating factional divisions within a single community’s legal practice.
Type of Learning
Derash on the verse (Yevamos) — the ban on communal factionalism.
What Is Learned
One may not create separate groups that follow conflicting rulings within the same city.