Study Bava Metzia folio 46A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
and then he says: This second-tithe produce that now belongs to you is hereby desacralized on coins that I have at home. The Talmud infers: The reason that it is necessary to employ this artifice is that he does not have coins in his hand. But if he has coins in his hand let him transfer ownership
The Talmud continues to state its objection to the opinion of Rav Pappa. And if you say a coin is acquired by means of a transaction of exchange, then even if the owner of produce has no money in his hand, let the owner transfer ownership of the coins, wherever they are, to the other person by mean
The Talmud asks: But isn’t it taught in the baraita that he is standing on the threshing floor? The Talmud answers: He is standing on a threshing floor that is not his. The Talmud asks: And did the tanna go to all that trouble just to teach us the case of a naked man, i.e., one who has nothing at
The Talmud relates: And even Rav Pappa retracted his previous statement that coins are acquired by means of a transaction of exchange, as in this incident in which Rav Pappa had 12,000 dinars that he lent to another in Bei Ḥozai. He transferred ownership of the dinars to his agent, Rav Shmuel bar Aḥ
The Talmud adds: And likewise, Ulla says: Money cannot be the item used to effect a transaction by means of exchange. And likewise, Rav Asi says: Money cannot be the item used to effect a transaction by means of exchange. And likewise, Rabba bar bar Ḥana says that R' Yoḥanan says: Money cannot be th