Study Bava Metzia folio 81A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
This indicates that if the skilled laborer said only: I completed the work with it, he is considered a paid bailee, i.e., even after he completes the work the item remains within his responsibility. The Talmud rejects this line of reasoning: No, this is not what should be deduced from the Mishnah
The Talmud asks: But if that is the case, when one says only: I completed the work with it, what is the halakha? Is he considered an unpaid bailee? If so, rather than teaching a new halakha in the Mishnah: And all those who say: Take what is yours and bring money, each of them is considered an unpa
The Talmud rejects this line of reasoning: The case of take what is yours must be taught explicitly. Otherwise, it might enter your mind to say that once he issues this statement, he is not considered even an unpaid bailee and retains no responsibility whatsoever for the item. Therefore, the Mishnah
There are those who say that there is a different version of this discussion. Rather than challenging that Rav Ḥisda’s opinion is opposed by the ruling of the Mishnah, Rav Naḥman bar Pappa said: We, too, learn a proof for Rav Ḥisda’s statement from the Mishnah: And all those who say: Take what is yo
The Talmud cites a third version of this discussion. Huna Mar bar Mareimar raised a contradiction between the mishnayot before Ravina and resolved it himself. We learned in the Mishnah: And all those who say: Take what is yours and bring money, each of them is considered an unpaid bailee. And appar