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The Talmud suggests: Come and hear a proof from the Mishnah (84b) that even items that are usually lifted can be acquired by means of pulling: With regard to one who sells produce to another, if the buyer pulled the produce but did not measure it, he has acquired it. The Talmud explains the proof:
The Talmud rejects this proof: With what are we dealing here? We are dealing with large bundles that are pulled from place to place and are not carried, due to their size. The Talmud asks: If that is so, say the latter clause of the Mishnah: One who buys flax from another has not acquired it until
Ravina said to Rav Ashi: Come and hear a proof from a Mishnah (Kiddushin 25b): Large livestock are acquired through passing the animal’s leash to the buyer, and small livestock are acquired through lifting; this is the statement of R' Meir and R' Shimon ben Elazar. And the Rabbis say: Small livesto
§ The Talmud cites another case with regard to sales. Rav and Shmuel both say: If a seller said to a buyer: I am selling you one kor, a measure equivalent to 30 se’a, of grain for the price of 30 sela, the seller can renege on the sale as long as the measuring vessel is not filled, even when only
The Talmud raises a difficulty from the baraita cited on 85a. Come and hear: If the measuring vessel belonged to one of them, the buyer acquires the items of sale one by one. And since this halakha is stated in general terms, it indicates that the buyer acquires each item as it is placed in the mea