Study Avodah Zarah folio 21A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
one may rent houses to non-Jews, but one may not rent fields. And outside of Eretz Yisrael one may sell houses and rent fields to non-Jews; this is the statement of R' Meir. R' Yosei says: In Eretz Yisrael one may rent houses to non-Jews but one may not rent fields. And in Syria one may sell houses
Even in a place with regard to which the rabbis said that it is permitted for a Jew to rent a house to a non-Jew, they did not say that one may rent it for use as a residence, because the non-Jew will bring objects of idol worship into it, as it is stated: “You shall not bring an abomination into yo
Talmud: What is the meaning of the Mishnah’s statement: Needless to say one may not allow non-Jews to rent fields? Why is the halakha with regard to fields more obvious than the halakha of houses? If we say that it is because allowing a non-Jew to rent a field entails two problems, one of which is
The Talmud explains why that cannot be the reason: If that is so, the same can be said about the prohibition against renting houses, as it also involves two problems: One is aiding non-Jews in encamping in the land, and the other one is that it releases the house from the mitzva of mezuza. Rav Mes
The Mishnah teaches: In Syria one may rent houses but not fields to non-Jews. The Talmud asks: What is different about selling houses that it is not permitted to sell houses in Syria? The Talmud answers that it is prohibited due to a concern that this will ultimately result in the selling of houses