Bava Metzia 106b

בבא מציעא ק״ו ע״ב

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Topic

An אריס's duties: replanting, the planting season, disaster discounts, paying rent from the field's crop, and switching crops

Overview

This amud opens by closing an earlier challenge with קשיא, which means it stays unanswered. Two ברייתות disagree on how many times an אריס must replant a ruined field. The גמרא explains that they follow רבי (a חזקה is set after two times) and רבן שמעון בן גמליאל (three times). ריש לקיש limits this to crops that sprouted and were eaten by locusts. If nothing sprouted, the farmer keeps planting all season, which רב פפא says ends when כימה is overhead. A ברייתא listing six seasons seems to contradict רב פפא, and the גמרא answers that he is talking about late crops. Next, רבא gives a money renter a discount for a מכת מדינה and sets aside רבי יהודה's opposite view. A new משנה teaches that wheat rent is paid from the field's own wheat. The גמרא limits this to cases where the land itself failed at its job. A final משנה forbids switching to a crop that is harder on the field, and רבן שמעון בן גמליאל forbids any switch. רב חסדא bases that view on keeping one's word, and a challenge from the פורים collection begins and continues on the next amud.

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The steps (26)

1. ConclusionThe earlier challenge stays unanswered
2. ChallengeTwo teachings disagree on how many times to replant
3. ResolutionEach teaching follows a different תנא
4. ResolutionTwo times or three times to make a pattern
5. StatementThe limit applies only when crops sprouted and were eaten
6. QuestionWhen does the planting season end
7. ResponseUntil the Pleiades stand overhead
8. ChallengeA ברייתא divides the year into six seasons
9. StatementOther opinions on when the seasons start
10. ChallengeEven the most lenient view ends planting before רב פפא's time
11. ResolutionEarly crops and late crops
12. StatementQuoting רבי יהודה's view on renting for money
13. StatementThe case of the garlic field by the river
14. Statementרבא rules it is a regional disaster and allows a discount
15. ChallengeThe רבנן challenge רבא from רבי יהודה
16. Resolutionרבא: no one follows רבי יהודה
17. StatementNew משנה: paying wheat rent from the field's own wheat
18. StatementThe case of the hay field paid in barley
19. Questionרב חביבא asks רבינא whether this matches the משנה
20. Responseרבינא: in the hay case the land did its job
21. StatementThe orchard whose wine turned sour
22. Rejectionרב אשי: the land did its job, so sour wine doesn't count
23. ConclusionWhere רב אשי agrees: shrunken grapes and blighted sheaves
24. StatementNew משנה: switching which crop is planted in a rented field
25. Statementרב חסדא gives the reason for רבן שמעון בן גמליאל's ruling
26. ChallengeA challenge begins from the Purim collection for the poor