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as Rava says: One who approaches another and says: I have 100 dinars in your possession, and the other says: You have in my possession only 50 dinars that I am sure about, and as for the rest, I do not know. As one who admitted to part of a claim, he is liable, by Torah law, to take an oath that h
The Talmud explains how the Mishnah can be interpreted as referring to a case in which the defendant makes a partial admission, thereby requiring him to take an oath: You find it in the first clause, i.e., in the first two cases of the Mishnah, in a situation where he took hold of two cows, and in
The Talmud explains: One can interpret the first clause to be referring to a case where one took hold of two cows, as follows: The case is that the owner said to the bailee: I delivered two cows to you under the agreement that one half of the day you would have them through borrowing and the other h
And the borrower said to him: With regard to one of them, yes, I admit that it died during a period of borrowing. But with regard to the other one, I do not know whether it died during a period of borrowing or if it died during a period of renting. Because he admits to part of the claim, he is r
And one can interpret the latter clause to be referring to a case where he took hold of 3 cows, as follows: The case is that the owner said to the bailee: I gave 3 cows to you; two through borrowing and one through renting. And I claim that those two that were being borrowed were the ones that died.