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Some said that the halakha is in accordance with the opinion of R' Shimon ben Elazar, but Shmuel himself does not hold accordingly.
The Talmud continues the discussion of acquisition of a stolen item due to a change it underwent. R' Ḥiyya bar Abba says that R' Yoḥanan says: By Torah law, a stolen item that has changed is returned as is, as it is stated: “And he shall restore that which he took by robbery” (Leviticus 5:23). This
The Talmud asks: But did R' Yoḥanan actually say that? But doesn’t R' Yoḥanan say: The halakha is in accordance with an unattributed Mishnah, and we learned in a Mishnah with regard to first of the sheared wool (Ḥullin 135a): If the owner of the sheep did not manage to give the sheared wool to the
One of the Rabbis, whose name was R' Ya’akov, said to them: It was explained to me directly by R' Yoḥanan that he was referring to a case where he robbed another of sanded wood and fashioned it into vessels, which is a change in which the item can revert to its original state. Consequently, the rob
§ Having mentioned the ordinance instituted for the penitent, the Talmud discusses other details of this ordinance. A baraita states (Tosefta, Shevi’it 8:11): With regard to robbers or usurers that returned either the stolen item or the interest to the one from whom they took it, one should not acce