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The seller gives back to the buyer the value of the seeds. Since the majority of flaxseeds are sold are for planting, it is a mistaken transaction. They said to him, i.e., to R' Yosei: Many, i.e., a majority of people, purchase flaxseeds for purposes other than planting. Consequently, the sale st
The Talmud asks: Who are the tanna’im in this baraita who have a dispute that parallels the dispute between Rav and Shmuel? If we say that they are R' Yosei and the opinion cited as: They said to him, that is incorrect, as both of them hold that one follows the majority in monetary matters. Their d
Rather, the dispute that parallels the dispute between Rav and Shmuel is either the dispute between the first tanna and R' Yosei, or the dispute between the first tanna and the opinion cited as: They said to him.
§ A baraita states: When the seller bears financial responsibility for selling seeds that did not sprout, what is he liable to give to the buyer? He is liable to give him only the value of the seeds themselves, but not the expenses that the buyer incurred in planting them, e.g., the hire of laborers
The Talmud asks: Who is the tanna whose opinion is cited as: Some say? Rav Ḥisda said that it is Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel.