Bava Batra 104B

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And if after this calculation there is still a surplus in excess of 1/4th-kav per se’a, equal in size to an area required for the sowing of 9 kav of seed, the entire surplus must be returned.

Rava raised an objection to Rav Naḥman: The Mishnah teaches that if the surplus in the field was an area required for the sowing of 9 kav of seed, the buyer returns the land to the seller. Isn’t this the halakha even in a case where he sold him a field measuring two kor? This would seem to indicat

Rava raised a further objection to Rav Naḥman: We learned in the continuation of the Mishnah that if the surplus in a garden was an area required for the sowing of a half-kav of seed, the buyer returns the land to the seller. Isn’t this the halakha even in a case where he sold him a garden measuring

Rava raised yet another objection to Rav Naḥman from the next clause in the Mishnah, which states: Or, according to the statement of R' Akiva, if the surplus in the garden was an area required for sowing 1/4th-kav of seed, the buyer returns the land to the seller. What, isn’t this the halakha even

The Mishnah teaches that in the case of a field, the buyer can return the land itself if the surplus was an area required for the sowing of 9 kav of seed, and in the case of a garden, if the surplus was an area required for the sowing of a half-kav of seed. Rav Ashi raises a dilemma: If one sold a