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who, after specifying its demarcations and boundaries, said to him: It is an area of 20 griv, meaning that it is fit for planting 20 se’a of grain. Rav Pappa later measured the field and found that it was fit for planting only 15 se’a. Rav Pappa came before Abaye to sue the seller. Abaye said to hi
Rav Pappa raised an objection to Abaye’s ruling from the Mishnah. But didn’t we learn in the Mishnah that when the seller specifies the field’s demarcations and borders, if the difference between the stated size of the field and its actual size is less than 1/6th, the field is the buyer’s, and the
Rav Pappa raised another objection to Abaye’s ruling: But the seller said to me that the field is fit for planting 20 se’a, and it is not. Abaye said to him: What he meant was that the field is as good and as fruitful as one that is fit for planting 20 se’a.
§ It is taught in a baraita that R' Yosei says: When brothers divide their father’s estate between them by lottery, i.e., after dividing the property into equal shares they draw lots to determine which brother is to receive which portion, once the lot for one of them is drawn, they all acquire the
The Talmud challenges: If the brothers’ division of their father’s estate is comparable to the initial division of Eretz Yisrael, an additional comparison should apply: Just as there, the initial division of Eretz Israel was carried out through a receptacle [bekalpi] in which lots were placed and t