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screams and says to each of the claimants: I do not recognize you and I find no basis for your claim. The Talmud comments: The one who says that the other screams holds that he need not return the money to each of them if he is screaming that he does not accept their claims. But a reaction of silenc
The Master said: The robber places the stolen item between them and withdraws from them. The Talmud challenges: And all of them take it and go, possibly resulting in the robbery victim losing his property. But doesn’t R' Abba bar Zavda say that Rav says concerning found items: In any case of uncer
Abaye said to Rava: In disputing R' Tarfon’s opinion with regard to one who robbed money from one of 5 people, did R' Akiva say: This is not the way to spare him from transgression; he is not considered to have returned the stolen item until he pays the value of the stolen item to each and every o
The Talmud raises a contradiction from a Mishnah (Bava Batra 158b): A house collapsed on a person and on his mother, and it is unclear which of them died first. The son’s heirs say: The mother died first and her property was inherited by her son, who then died, and therefore the heirs of the son in
Rava said to Abaye: There, in the case where the house collapsed, it is where there is an uncertain claim and an uncertain claim, as neither party knows what transpired. By contrast, in a case where one robbed money from one of 5 people, it is a case where there is a certain claim and an uncertain