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A subverter (of a city) is one who says, “Let us go and serve idols.” The sorcerer is one who performs sorcery and is liable (to be stoned), and not one who creates illusions. Rabbi Akiva says in the name of Rabbi Yehoshua: If two gather cucumbers (through sorcery) - one gathers and is exempt, and one gathers and is liable. The one who performs an action is liable, but the one who deceives the eye (by creating an allusion that he is gathering) is exempt.
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