Talmud for Bava Metsia 9:1
א"ר לעזר אם היה הלווה מודה הרי זה יחזיר. א"ר לעזר אם הוחזק השטר ביד המלוה הרי זה יחזיר. ותליתהון מתברן. וחכמים אומרים בין כך ובין כך לא יחזיר. רבי אבהו בשם רבי יוחנן מפני קינוניא. רבי יסא בשם רבי יוחנן אם היה זמנו יוצא לבו ביום יחזיר:
Any generation in which the Beis Hamikdosh is not rebuilt is considered as if they had destroyed it.
Jerusalem Talmud Peah
25Here starts the discussion of the opinion of Rabban Simeon ben Gamliel, that the gleanings of the poor are given as a fixed percentage of the harvest. Rebbi Zeïra, Rebbi Abbahu in the name of Rebbi Joḥanan: Four kab per kor26In the Babli, Baba Meẓi‘a 105b, this is also given by R. Abbahu; the reading (of an otherwise unattested) “R. Abuh” in the current editions of the Babli is a late printer’s error according to Diqduqe Soferim Baba Meẓi‘a p. 155. A kor is 30 seah or 180 qab.. Rebbi Zeïra asked before Rebbi Abbahu: Four qab per kor or per bet kor27Do you mean 4 qab in volume for any kor in volume, 1 in 45, or 4 qab(about 4.5 U. S. pints) for a field of area 1 bet kor = 30 bet seah = 30×2500 square cubits = 75’000 square cubits (570.25 acres)? The first option is unlikely because that would make gleanings 2.2% of the harvest, much more than the larger peah. Since an ear of grain can be expected to yield at least 15 grains, the second option would mean gleanings of 4 qab for at least 2’700 qab harvested.? He said to him, per bet kor. There28Mishnah Baba Meẓi‘a 9:5: “He who received a field as a sharecropper, and it failed to grow, nevertheless is required to tend it as long as the yield will be sufficient to form one heap. Rebbi Jehudah says: What is the definition of a heap? Rather, if it is enough to drop it.” Rashi explains there, “enough to use it as seed.” R. Jehudah complains that “heap” cannot be a legal definition [even though R. Abbahu in the Babli, R. Joshua ben Levi in the Yerushalmi (Baba Meẓi‘a9:5, fol. 12a), define it as a mound in which a shovel stays upright.], we have stated: “What is the definition of a heap? Rather, if it is enough to let it fall29This is the same expression as the one used here by Rabban Simeon ben Gamliel. The Babli Baba Meẓi‘a105b declares, again in the name of R. Joḥanan, that this means four qab per bet kor.. Rebbi Abbahu said, enough to let it fall as seed30I. e., the field produces at least as much grain as was used for sowing. This is also R. Abbahu’s definition in Baba Meẓi‘a; it is much more than the נפלה defined here. How may R. Abbahu give two different definitions for the same legal expression? The question is not answered. Maybe this is the reason why Maimonides, in his Code, does not follow Rabban Simeon ben Gamliel, even though his opinions are almost always the practice to be followed..” And here, he says so!
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