Study Bava Metzia folio 118A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
They are yours, as I hereby declare them ownerless, and you can take them for yourself; the court does not listen to him, since he cannot force the other to acquire the stones. If after the owner of the garden voluntarily accepted ownership of the stones upon himself, the owner of the wall said t
The Mishnah continues: In the case of one who hires a laborer to do work with him with hay or with straw, and after he finished the task, the laborer said to the employer: Give me my wages, and the employer said to him: Take what you have worked with as your wages, i.e., take some of the hay or str
Talmud: With regard to the case of the roof of the olive press that was broken, the Talmud cites a dispute with regard to the amount that collapsed: Rav says: Most of it must have collapsed, and Shmuel says: Even a hole of 4 handbreadths is sufficient for the ruling of the Mishnah to apply. Rav s
The Talmud comments: And it is necessary for the dispute between Rav and Shmuel to be stated both here and with regard to the case of an upper story of a house that collapsed (116b). As had the Talmud taught us only that they disagree with regard to a residence, one would have said: It is only in t
§ The Mishnah teaches: If the court saw that the wall was shaky, or that the tree was tilting, and they gave him time to cut down the tree or to dismantle the wall, and then they fell down, if this occurred during the allotted time, he is exempt, but if they collapsed after the time given to him had