Study Bava Metzia folio 92A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
but a worker who was walking is considered like one who was performing his labor. Yet, since one who was performing labor on this vine may not eat from another vine, he would not be entitled to eat while walking if not for the ordinance of the rabbis.
§ The Mishnah teaches: And with regard to a donkey, it is permitted to eat when it is being unloaded. The Talmud is puzzled by this statement: From where can it eat when it is being unloaded? Since the load is being removed from the animal at the time, how can the donkey eat from it? Rather, you
Mishnah: A laborer may eat cucumbers while he works, and this is the halakha even if the amount he eats is equal in value to a dinar; or he may eat dates, and this is the halakha even if the amount he eats is equal in value to a dinar. R' Elazar Ḥisma says: A laborer may not eat more than the valu
Talmud: The Talmud asks: The statement of the Rabbis is identical to the statement of the first tanna. A Mishnah would not repeat the exact same opinion. The Talmud explains: The practical difference between them concerns the statement: But one teaches a person not to be a glutton. According to th
If you wish, say instead that the practical difference between them concerns a halakha taught by Rav Asi. As Rav Asi says: Even if he hired him to harvest only one cluster, the laborer may eat. And Rav Asi further said: Even if he harvested only one cluster, he may eat it.