תלמוד על בבא מציעא 9:3

Lend me your cow and I shall respond to your request¹⁴It is not clear what this means. In the other three cases the borrower asks the owner to be with the animal, tool, or vessel; the biblical rule of the borrower applies. Therefore, one has to assume that in the first case also the borrower asks for animal and owner and is ready to reciprocate with his animal and time.; lend me your cow and come work with me; lend me your axe and come weed with me; lend me your plate and come eat with me. If he borrowed it from the superintendent of cisterns, the steward¹⁵Chapter 5, Note 138. The steward is the organizer of the work on the estate; the administrator (οἰκονόμος) is the paymaster and the accountant. On large estates, both could be slaves, cf. Bava batra 4:7., or the administrator and it died, it is as if the owners were with it¹⁶On an estate of absentee owners, the employees authorized to dispose of certain items do represent the owners. If the employee worked with the borrower, it is as if the owner worked with him..