Study Bava Metzia folio 76B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
How can these cases be compared? Granted, if the opposite was stated, i.e., in a case where the woman said: Receive my bill of divorce for me, and the agent said to the husband: Your wife said: Bring me my bill of divorce, and the husband said: Here you are, as she said; and Rav Naḥman says that R
Alternatively, had Rav Naḥman ruled: From when the bill of divorce reaches her possession, she is divorced, one could conclude that evidently, the husband relies on the agent’s statement, and based on that statement, the agent is designated as an agent for delivery. But there, in the case cited
§ The Talmud had assumed that the term deceived used in the Mishnah must be referring to an inaccuracy stated by the middleman in his discussion with the laborers. The Talmud now offers an alternative explanation. If you wish, say that when the Mishnah teaches: They deceived one another, it means th
The baraita continues: In what case is this statement said? When they did not go to the workplace, i.e., the employer reneged immediately. But if donkey drivers went and could not find any produce to carry, or laborers went off to work and found that the field was too moist for tilling, the employer
In what case is this statement, that if they reneged they have only a grievance, said? When they had not started the work at all. But if they had started the work, the court appraises for them that which they have done, for which they receive some form of compensation. How so? If they received s