Daf Yomi for Women – דף יומי לנשים

Rav and Shmuel discuss the differences in when the merchandise is acquired if you say I am buying all of it for one price or if you specify how much each measurement (for ex. each se’ah) will cost (even though you are buying many se’ah).  Two sources are brought to contradict their opinion but are resolved.  The next mishna discusses 3 different halachot – one pertaining to at what point of measuring is neither side allowed to change their mind, the next pertained to a middleman – and is he responsible if the vessel breaks and the merchandise is lost (wine or oil) (exactly what the case is is debatable), and what is the status of drops left in the jug after if it measured out and poured into the buyers utensils?   Details of these cases are discussed int he gemara.  The next mishna is a case where a father sends a son to the store to buy oil and the utensil breaks, the oil is lost, as is the change that the son received.  There is a debate about who is responsible.  Based on details in the mishna, the gemara grapples to understand what exactly is the case in the mishna and what is the source of the debate.

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The mishna discusses 4 types of sales – one where the buyer can renege, one where the seller can renege (cases where the quality was different than the one agreed upon), one where neither xcan renege and one where either side can renege.  Rav Chisda adds that if there was ona’ah (over or undercharging) in which case the sale can be cancelled, and then the price changed after the sale, still only the side that was over/undercharged can renege. How does one acquire fruits?  The mishna discusses which methods work and which don’t.  Rabbi Asi and Rabbi Zeira debate what Rabbi Yochanan holds regarding one who measured and put the items in a side area off the main thoroughfare.  Does one acquire it if it is simply put there or does it need to be placed in the vessels of the buyer in the side area?

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Rabbi Meir and the rabbis disagree in a case where one purchases two trees, does one acquire the land also or not?  What are the ramifications of this debate?  Does one bring the first fruits of a tree like this?  According to the mishna in Bikurim, Rabbi Meir and the rabbis also debate this point and according to the rabbis, one would bring the first fruits to the Beit Hamikdash but not say the recitation.  Is this mishna in Bikurim connected to the debate in our mishna?  And why this in between – bring the fruits but not say the recitation?  Rabba answers that we do it because of a doubt – the rabbis are unclear whether or not one acquires the land (likewise for Rabbi Meir in the case of one who purchases one tree).  Four questions are brought on Rabba’s answer and are all resolved but in a way that changes the method in which one brings these fruits to the Beit Hamikdash.

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Ameimar paskens on the issue regarding how one can transfer a document of a loan to another.  There are 2 different versions of the gemara – each having the opposite conclusion.  The gemara questions Ameimar and then resolves the contradiction.  The mishna then discusses other parts of an item that one acquires or doesn’t acquire with the sale of the item.  There is a debate in the mishna whether or not we can look at the amount of money and that will be telling about what the purchase was for.

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Rabba bar bar Chana tells stories about when an Arab showed him the people who died in the desert (dor hamidbar), Mount Sinai, and the earth where Korach and his followers were killed.  Each place seemed to have some sort of magical powers associated with it.  Stories are brought by various rabbis about all the Leviathan and other gigantic creatures.

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