Study Bava Batra folio 165A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
The Talmud answers: Rather, Rav was referring to uttering a hint, i.e., words with a bare trace, of lashon hara.
Rav Yehuda says that Rav says: The majority of people succumb to sin with regard to robbery, and a minority of people succumb to sin with regard to sexual matters, and everyone succumbs to sin with regard to lashon hara. The Talmud asks: Can it enter your mind that all people sin with regard to la
§ The Mishnah teaches, with regard to documents, that Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel says: Everything is in accordance with regional custom. The Talmud wonders: And does the first tanna not accept that one should follow the regional custom? It is not reasonable that he would take issue with such a basi
Rav Ashi said in explanation: In a place where the custom is to write an ordinary document, and one said to a scribe: Make an ordinary document for me, and the scribe went and made a tied document for him, it is assumed that he was particular about wanting an ordinary document. Similarly, in a plac
When the tanna’im of the Mishnah disagree is in a place where the custom is to write both an ordinary document and a tied document, and one said to a scribe: Make an ordinary document for me, and the scribe went and made a tied document for him. In such a case, one Sage, the first tanna, holds tha