Study Bava Metzia folio 49B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
I said to him: No. He said to me: Let these dinars remain as a deposit with you, as the day has grown dark for me and I am unable to reach home before Shabbat. I said to him: This house is before you. He placed them in the house and the dinars were stolen. That man came to have his case judged befo
§ The Mishnah teaches that R' Shimon says: Anyone who has the money in his possession has the advantage. It is taught in a baraita: R' Shimon says: When does the one with the money in his possession have the advantage? It is when both the money and the produce are in the possession of the seller. Bu
The Talmud asks: Isn’t it obvious that the seller cannot renege, as the buyer acquired the produce through the transaction of pulling? Rava said: With what are we dealing here? It is a case where the upper story of the house belonging to the buyer, where the produce was stored, was rented to the s
The Talmud relates: There was a certain man who gave money in exchange for wine. Ultimately he heard that men from the house of Parzak the vizier [rufila] sought to appropriate the wine. The buyer said to the seller: Give me my money, as I do not want the wine. The case came before Rav Ḥisda, who
Mishnah: The measure of exploitation for which one can claim that he was exploited is 4 silver ma’a from the 24 silver ma’a in a sela, or 1/6th of the transaction. Until when is it permitted for the buyer to return the item? He may return it only until a period of time has passed that would allow