Bava Batra 105A

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the words: Measured precisely with a rope, nullify the words: More or less, since the principle is that in all cases, one should attend to the final expression; this is the statement of ben Nanas.

Talmud: R' Abba bar Memel says that Rav says: Ben Nanas’s colleagues disagree with him with regard to his ruling that one should attend to the final expression. The Talmud asks: What new halakha is Rav teaching us? Don’t we already learn that they disagree from a Mishnah (Bava Metzia 102a): There

The incident came before Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel and before R' Yosei for a decision as to whether the intercalated month is included in the words: 12 gold dinars a year, or whether an additional payment must be made for that month, as the agreement stipulated: One gold dinar per month. And they sa

The Talmud replies: If the rabbis’ opinion was derived only from there, I would not know that they disagree with the opinion of ben Nanas in all cases, as I would say that it is only there that the rabbis say that the parties divide the disputed sum between them. As it is possible to say that the l

Similar to what was cited above in the name of Rav, Rav Yehuda says that Shmuel says: This is the statement of ben Nanas, who says with regard to a case of contradictory expressions that one should attend to the final expression; but the rabbis say: Follow the least inclusive expression, the one t