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a mortar [udaini], which people pay to use, the rent goes to the middle? But isn’t the profit accruing from a mortar considered profit accruing on his, i.e., the adult son’s, own account, as the adult son must supervise its operation, and there is no outlay from the property? The Talmud dismisses
§ The Mishnah teaches: If the adult sons said from the outset: See that which our father left behind; we are going to engage in business with our share of the property and profit from it, then they enhanced the property for themselves. The Talmud relates: Rav Safra’s father left him dinars. Rav Sa
§ The Mishnah teaches: With regard to a wife who enhanced the property of her deceased husband, she enhanced it so that the profit goes to the middle. The Talmud asks: What is the deceased’s wife doing with the orphans’ property? What rights does she have to the property? Rav Yirmeya said: The Mi
The Talmud asks: Isn’t it obvious that the halakha in this case is the same as with regard to any other heir? The Talmud replies: It is necessary to state this, lest you say that since it is not a woman’s way to toil to enhance property, then even though she did not expressly state that she is toili
The Mishnah teaches: And if she said: See that which my husband left me; I am going to engage in business with my share and profit from it, then she enhanced the property for herself. The Talmud asks: Isn’t this obvious? The Talmud explains: It is necessary to state this, lest you say that since i