Study Bava Metzia folio 50A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
an item worth 6 ma’a for 5 ma’a, who was exploited? It is the seller. Therefore, the seller is at an advantage. If he wishes, he can say to the buyer: Give me back my merchandise and nullify the transaction, or he can say: Give me back the sum which you received by engaging in exploitation of me
§ A dilemma was raised before the rabbis: According to the opinion of the Rabbis that one has only until a period of time has passed that would allow him to show the merchandise to a merchant or to his relative in order to claim that he has been exploited, in a case where the disparity between the v
The Talmud answers: There is a difference, as in the case of a disparity of 1/6th, the one who was exploited has the advantage, since if he wishes, he reneges on the transaction, and if he wishes, the buyer acquires the purchase item, and the one who perpetrated the exploitation returns the sum
The Talmud returns to the dilemma: At what point in time is a disparity of less than 1/6th between the value of the purchase item and the price paid waived? The Talmud suggests: Come and hear a resolution of the dilemma from the Mishnah: R' Tarfon said to them: Throughout the entire day it is permit
The Talmud explains the proof. The rabbis assumed that the legal status of a disparity of less than 1/3rd according to the opinion of R' Tarfon, who holds that 1/3rd is the determinative disparity, is like a disparity of less than 1/6th according to the opinion of the Rabbis, who hold that 1/6th i