Study Bava Metzia folio 73B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
The Talmud relates: A certain non-Jew mortgaged a house to Rav Mari bar Raḥel for a loan that Rav Mari had provided him. Afterward, the non-Jew sold the house to Rava. Rav Mari waited for 12 months of the year to pass, took the amount of money necessary to pay rent for the house and brought it to
Rava said to him: Had I known that this house was mortgaged to the Master, I would not have purchased it at all, as I would have given you the chance to purchase it first. Now, therefore, I will act toward you according to the law of the non-Jews, as I assumed the rights previously held by the non-
The Talmud relates: Rava of Barnish said to Rav Ashi: The Master sees the rabbis who consume interest, as they give people money for wine in the month of Tishrei, and they select the wine later, in the month of Tevet. Had they taken the wine immediately upon payment, there is a chance that it would
Rav Ashi said to him: They too gave the money at the outset for wine, but they did not give it for vinegar. That which was wine at the outset is still wine, and that which became vinegar was vinegar when they paid for it but they did not know it. It was at that time of selection that they merely s
The Talmud relates: Ravina would give money in advance to the people of the fortress [akra] at the river Shanvata in order to buy wine to be supplied after the grape harvest, and when they supplied the wine they would pour an extra jug [kufita] of wine for him as a gift, although there was no stipul