Study Bava Batra folio 95A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
There, in the case of the sale of land, the reason the buyer may keep the extra land when it is less than the acceptable limit is that the seller said to him: I am selling you this piece of land whether it is slightly less or slightly more than a beit kor, i.e., he agrees to accept a small deviati
The Talmud explains why more than an area required to sow 1/4th-kav of seed per beit se’a of land is significant: The reason is that since all those extra areas of land are fit to combine together to form an area in which one could sow 9 kav of seed, the extra land is a significant plot of land in i
The Talmud suggests: Come and hear a support for Rav Huna’s ruling from a baraita: The halakha of price exploitation is that if the disparity is less than 1/6th of the value of the merchandise, the merchandise is acquired immediately and the sum of the exploitation need not be returned. If the dispa
The Talmud explains the proof: Why, in the case where the disparity is precisely 1/6th, is the entire sum of the exploitation returned? Instead, let him return only a small amount of the exploitation until the difference is less than 1/6th. The Talmud concludes: Learn from the fact that he must re
The Talmud rejects this: How can these cases be compared? There, in the case of exploitation, the seller initially said to the buyer that he would sell the merchandise for a sum equal to its value. Any price difference should be unacceptable. But a disparity of less than 1/6th is not recognizable