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Bava Basra 50a

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Bava Batra 50a

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Topic

רבה's three fields and נכסי מלוג; אמימר's ruling and the ברייתא on whether owning the use (קנין פירות) equals owning the thing (קנין הגוף)

Overview

This amud finishes רבה's list of three fields where a wife who agreed to a sale can later say she only agreed to please her husband. The גמרא asks what the list leaves out. It rejects the idea that it leaves out the husband's other property, since there the pressure on her would be even greater. Instead it says the list leaves out נכסי מלוג, her own property that he only gets the profits of. אמימר's ruling that a sale of נכסי מלוג does nothing seems to contradict this. The first answer says אמימר meant only a sale by one spouse alone, backed by the enactment of אושא, while a sale by both or by the wife to her husband is valid. A second answer says אמימר follows רבי אלעזר, and the גמרא quotes a ברייתא about a slave sold on condition he serves the seller for thirty days. רבי מאיר says the seller counts as master, because owning the use is like owning the thing, and רבי יהודה says the buyer does, because it is not. רבי יוסי's opinion begins and continues on the next amud.

Opening lines

וְאַחַת שֶׁיִּחֵד לָהּ בִּכְתוּבָּתָהּ,

and one that he designated for her in her marriage contract,

וְאַחַת שֶׁהִכְנִיסָה לוֹ שׁוּם מִשֶּׁלָּהּ.

and one where she brought in to him an appraised field from her own property.

לְמַעוֹטֵי מַאי?

To exclude what?

אִילֵּימָא לְמַעוֹטֵי שְׁאָר נְכָסִים –

If you say: to exclude the rest of the property,

The steps (14)

  1. StatementEnd of רבה's list of three fields
  2. QuestionWhat does the list leave out?
  3. RejectionNot the husband's other property
  4. ResponseThe list leaves out נכסי מלוג
  5. ChallengeChallenge from אמימר
  6. Resolutionאמימר meant one spouse selling alone
  7. ProofThe source: the enactment of אושא
  8. ResolutionWhen both spouses sell, the sale is valid
  9. ResolutionSecond answer: אמימר follows רבי אלעזר
  10. ProofThe ברייתא: selling a slave but keeping his service for thirty days
  11. Statementרבי מאיר: the first master counts for 'a day or two'
  12. StatementWhy רבי מאיר makes the seller the owner
  13. Statementרבי יהודה says the buyer is the owner
  14. StatementThe ברייתא begins quoting רבי יוסי