Study Bava Batra folio 166B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
The Mishnah concludes: And as a result, the price of the nests stood that day at 1/4th of a silver dinar, as the demand for nests decreased. It is clear in the Mishnah that the term dinarei indicates a higher value than the term dinarin.
§ The Mishnah teaches: If it is written in the document above that someone owes 100 dinars, and below it is written 200 dinars, or if above it is written 200 and below 100, everything follows the bottom amount. If so, why does one write the information in the upper part of the document at all? It is
For example: if the name of one party is written as Ḥanan below and Ḥanani above, it may be derived from the word Ḥanani written above that the party is named Ḥanani. And similarly, if a name is written Anan below, it may be learned from the name Anani written above that the party is named Anani.
The Talmud asks: What is different about two letters missing, that the baraita teaches that the name written below cannot be corrected from the name written above? The Talmud suggests: It is out of concern that perhaps it will occur by chance that there is a four-letter name, and the omission of two
The Talmud explains: Rather, this is the reason that when two letters are missing the name written below cannot be corrected from the name written above: The concern is that perhaps it will occur by chance that there is a three-letter name, and the omission of two letters would be a majority of the