Study Bava Metzia folio 101B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
In the case of a house, the court listens to him, but in the case of a field, the court does not listen to him.
The Talmud asks: In the case of a field, what is the reason that the court does not listen to him? It is that due to the desire to promote the settling of Eretz Yisrael, it is inappropriate to uproot trees. There are those who say that it is for a different reason: It is due to the weakening of the
Mishnah: In the case of one who rents out a house in a town to another in the winter, the owner cannot evict the renter from the house from the festival of Sukkot until Passover. If the rental was in the summer, he must give 30 days’ notice before he can evict him. And for a house located in the
Talmud: The Talmud asks: What is different about the winter that one cannot evict his renter? The Talmud suggests: Because when a person rents a house during the winter, it is presumed that he rents it for the entire winter. The Talmud challenges this: But in the summer as well, the same halakha
The Talmud asks: If that is the reason for the first clause of the Mishnah, say and try to explain accordingly the latter clause that states: And for a house located in the cities, both in the summer and in the winter, one must give 12 months’ notice. It arises from this ruling that if the 12 month