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There are two things that could convince you of no censorship.

  1. The particular text is a flowing conversation indifferent from any other Talmudic banter. Which opposes the given example from Sanhedrin; the text is cut off abruptly there.

  2. The Munich Manuscript (the only known complete Babylonian Talmud in manuscript, available here.) shows no signs at all of tampering or censoring etc. as opposed to Sanhedrin, where the text has clearly been tampered with.

Menachos, page 845:

Menachos follow along-along text:

קאמר ר' ישמעאל הכא אלא דליכא בזיון קדשים אבל התם דאיכא בזיון קדשים אימא לך כרבנן סבירא ליה אי נמי עד כאן לא קא"ר ישמעאל בנו של ר' יוחנן בן ברוקא התם אלא דאיתעביד ליה צורך גבוה

Sanhedrin, page 686:

There are two things that could convince you of no censorship.

  1. The particular text is a flowing conversation indifferent from any other Talmudic banter. Which opposes the given example from Sanhedrin; the text is cut off abruptly there.

  2. The Munich Manuscript (the only known complete Babylonian Talmud in manuscript, available here.) shows no signs at all of tampering or censoring etc. as opposed to Sanhedrin, where the text has clearly been tampered with.

Menachos, page 845:

Menachos follow along text:

קאמר ר' ישמעאל הכא אלא דליכא בזיון קדשים אבל התם דאיכא בזיון קדשים אימא לך כרבנן סבירא ליה אי נמי עד כאן לא קא"ר ישמעאל בנו של ר' יוחנן בן ברוקא התם אלא דאיתעביד ליה צורך גבוה

Sanhedrin, page 686:

There are two things that could convince you of no censorship.

  1. The particular text is a flowing conversation indifferent from any other Talmudic banter. Which opposes the given example from Sanhedrin; the text is cut off abruptly there.

  2. The Munich Manuscript (the only known complete Babylonian Talmud in manuscript, available here.) shows no signs at all of tampering or censoring etc. as opposed to Sanhedrin, where the text has clearly been tampered with.

Menachos, page 845:

Menachos follow-along text:

קאמר ר' ישמעאל הכא אלא דליכא בזיון קדשים אבל התם דאיכא בזיון קדשים אימא לך כרבנן סבירא ליה אי נמי עד כאן לא קא"ר ישמעאל בנו של ר' יוחנן בן ברוקא התם אלא דאיתעביד ליה צורך גבוה

Sanhedrin, page 686:

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There are two things that could convince you of no censorship.

  1. The particular text is a flowing conversation indifferent from any other Talmudic banter. Which opposes the given example from Sanhedrin; the text is cut off abruptly there.

  2. The Munich Manuscript (the only known complete Babylonian Talmud in manuscript, available here.) shows no signs at all of tampering or censoring etc. as opposed to Sanhedrin, where the text has clearly been tampered with.

Menachos, page 845:

Menachos follow along text:

קאמר ר' ישמעאל הכא אלא דליכא בזיון קדשים אבל התם דאיכא בזיון קדשים אימא לך כרבנן סבירא ליה אי נמי עד כאן לא קא"ר ישמעאל בנו של ר' יוחנן בן ברוקא התם אלא דאיתעביד ליה צורך גבוה

Sanhedrin, page 686: