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The verse introduces the halakhot with regard to an unpaid bailee with the phrase: “If a man delivers to his neighbor silver or vessels to safeguard” (Exodus 22:6). The phrase “if a man delivers to his neighbor” is a generalization, “silver or vessels” is a detail, and when the verse states: “To sa
Land is therefore excluded, as it is not movable property. Canaanite slaves are excluded, as they are compared to land in many areas of halakha. Financial documents are excluded, since although they are movable property, they do not have intrinsic monetary value. Consecrated property is excluded be
§ The Mishnah teaches that a paid bailee does not pay for the loss or theft of one of these items. The Talmud asks: From where do we derive this halakha? The Talmud answers: It is as A baraita states: The verse introduces the halakhot with regard to a paid bailee with the phrase: “If a man delivers
§ The Mishnah teaches: R' Meir says: There are certain items that are like land with regard to their form, but are not treated like land from a halakhic perspective; and the Rabbis do not concede that this is so, as they hold that the halakhic status of anything that is attached to the land is like
R' Yosei, son of R' Ḥanina, said that they disagree here not with regard to any item that is attached to the land, as R' Meir concedes that such items usually have the halakhic status of the land itself. The dispute is specifically with regard to grapes that are ready to be harvested, as R' Meir hol