Bava Basra 68a

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Bava Batra 68a

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Topic

What is included in a sale: a bathhouse, an olive press, and a whole city (slaves, the סנטר, and בית השלחין)

Overview

The amud opens with the end of a ברייתא: a plain sale of a בית המרחץ leaves out things like the wood storeroom, but 'and all its accompaniments' includes everything. In a real case, a man sold a בית הבד 'with all its accompaniments,' and there were stores outside it where sesame was dried. רב יוסף ruled from that ברייתא that the stores were sold. אביי challenged him from רבי חייא's ברייתא, which says not everything is sold. רב אשי decided that the stores are sold only if the seller also named boundaries that include them. Then a new משנה teaches that selling a city includes its fixed structures but not its מטלטלין, unless the seller says 'it and everything in it.' The גמרא tries to prove from this משנה that a slave counts as movable property, but רב אשי shows the proof fails. Last, the גמרא asks what רבן שמעון בן גמליאל's word סנטר means, either the land registrar or the fields, and tests each view against the משנה's term בית השלחין in two versions. The second version's challenge to the registrar view continues on the next amud.

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The steps (20)

1. StatementEnd of the teaching on selling a bathhouse
2. QuestionA real case: selling an olive press with its accompaniments
3. Responseרב יוסף rules the stores were sold
4. Challengeאביי objects from רבי חייא's teaching
5. Resolutionרב אשי: it depends on whether boundaries were stated
6. StatementNew משנה: what is included when selling a city
7. StatementSelling the city 'and everything in it'
8. Statementרבן שמעון בן גמליאל: the סנטר is sold with the city
9. ProofTrying to prove a slave is like movable property
10. ChallengeCounter-challenge: then why does the משנה say 'even'?
11. RejectionMovable or land, a self-moving slave is different
12. QuestionWhat does סנטר mean?
13. ResponseTwo meanings: land registrar or fields
14. StatementWhat each definition means in practice
15. ProofSetting up a proof from בית השלחין
16. ChallengeThe 'fields' view makes רבן שמעון בן גמליאל say nothing new
17. Resolutionשלחין means gardens, not fields
18. Conclusionרבן שמעון בן גמליאל adds that fields are sold too
19. StatementA second version begins, assuming שלחין means gardens
20. StatementThe opinion that סנטר means fields works well