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Here R' Yehuda HaNasi taught, i.e., it can be learned from this Mishnah that it is R' Yehuda HaNasi’s opinion that everything belongs to the owner of the money. If one earned a profit through the actions of his agent, the profit belongs to him and not to the agent, as it is taught in a baraita whe
The Talmud asks: But isn’t it taught in a baraita that R' Yosei says: Everything belongs to the owner of the money? Rami bar Ḥama said: This is not difficult. Here the baraita is referring to an item that has a fixed price. If the seller added something, it is clear that the additional item is a gi
Rav Pappa said: The halakha is that an item that has a fixed price is split, and with regard to an item that does not have a fixed price, the entire profit belongs to the owner of the money. The Talmud asks: What is he teaching us with that statement? That is exactly what Rami bar Ḥama said. The T
§ A dilemma was raised before the rabbis: If one said to his agent: Sell on my behalf a half-kor, and the agent went and sold for him a kor, what is the halakha? Is he considered to be adding to the words of his employer? In that case, though he also performed an action that he was not assigned to d
Rav Ya’akov of Pekod River said in the name of Ravina: Come and hear proof from a Mishnah (Me’ila 20a): The Mishnah teaches with regard to the halakhot of misuse of consecrated property: If the host said to his agent: Give the guests a piece of meat, and the agent went and said to the guests: Take t