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 Slaves are bought for large sums of money. Free people can be bought with but a few nice words. Who would be foolish to pass up a bargain like that? - Sefer Charedim - |
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| Bava Metzia 68 |
Summary of the Daf
Even in a place that the Minhag is that the borrower may repay the loan and take back the Mashkon at any time he may not take back the Mashkon within a year.
If a borrower sells the Mashkon to the lender the Din of Bar Mitzra doesn’t apply and the neighbors may not take the land from him.
R. Papa says it is permitted to sell merchandise on credit and to charge an inflated amount if the item is non-perishable and he is not in desperate need of the money, but only if he doesn’t give the buyer an option to pay immediately at a discounted price. Read More
If someone gives his friend merchandise on condition that the profit will be divided between them it is forbidden to evaluate the future profit and write in the Shtar that his friend owes the principle plus half of the anticipated profit because maybe there won’t be any profit. Read More
If a person is given a field as a Mashkon he may not subsequently lease the land back to the borrower because it is Ribis.
A person may not give a storekeeper merchandise or money to buy merchandise on condition that they will divide the profits between them unless he pays him for his effort. Read More
R. Me'ir says even if he is paid a small fee it is sufficient, R. Yehudah says even if he only eats wit him one fig it is sufficient while R. Shimon Bar Yochai holds he must be paid the amount that a person would take in return for being idle from his usual difficult work and work as a storekeeper instead. Read More
A person may not give eggs to an owner of a hen so that the hen will be placed on the eggs and he will raise the chicks on condition that they will divide the eggs, or calves and baby donkeys to his friend to raise and when they are grown they will split the animals between them unless he pays him for his work and for food for the hens or the animals. Read More
A person may not give goats and sheep to raise and the when they are grown they will split the animals between them if his friend is given the milk and wool as payment for his effort.
If his friend is not given the milk and the wool and he is only given the whey and the wool that comes off the wool that comes off the animal when it is washed the Tana Kama holds it is forbidden while R. Yosi Bar Yehudah holds it is permitted. Read More
A person may give calves and baby donkeys to his friend to raise until the calf grow to a third of its full size and the donkey is big enough to carry a load and divide the animals between them if the friend is not responsible if the animal dies.
A woman may rent a hen to her friend and the friend will place the hen on the eggs and raise the chicks and she will be given two chicks, since she is using a Lashon of rental it is permitted even though she is not being paid for her effort.
If a woman says to her friend the hen is mine and the eggs are yours let us split the chicks it is permitted according to R. Yehudah if she takes the eggs that do not produce chicks, while R. Shimon argues. Read More
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