Study Bava Batra folio 85A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
A person’s vessels effect acquisition of any item placed inside them for him, in any place in which they are situated, except for the public domain. And R' Yoḥanan and R' Shimon ben Lakish both say: Even in the public domain, one’s vessels effect acquisition of items placed in them.
Rav Pappa said: These amora’im do not disagree: Here, when Rav and Shmuel state that one’s vessel does not effect acquisition for him, they are speaking of a vessel placed in the public domain; there, when R' Yoḥanan and Reish Lakish state that his vessel effects acquisition on his behalf, they a
The Talmud points out: So, too, it is reasonable to interpret R' Yoḥanan’s statement in this manner, as R' Abbahu says that R' Yoḥanan says: A person’s vessels effect acquisition for him in any place where he has permission to keep them. It can be inferred from here: In a location where he has perm
The Talmud suggests: Come and hear a difficulty from a baraita: There are 4 cases with regard to sellers, i.e., 4 methods through which merchandise is acquired. When the seller measures merchandise for the buyer, before the measuring vessel has been filled the merchandise in the vessel still belong
In what case is this statement said? It is said when the seller measures the items in the public domain or in a courtyard that does not belong to either of them. But if it happens in the domain of the seller, the buyer does not acquire the merchandise until he lifts the measuring vessel or until h