Study Avodah Zarah folio 16A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
If it were possible to avoid selling produce to non-Jews without incurring their animosity, indeed it would be prohibited to sell them. Since limiting sales to non-Jews to such an extent would cause great harm, it is only prohibited to sell them shields.
There are those who say: With regard to shields, this is the reason that one is not allowed to sell them to non-Jews: As when their use of their weapon is finished in battle, they kill with these shields. And accordingly, the reason that some say in the baraita that one may sell shields to them is
Rav Adda bar Ahava says: One may not sell blocks [ashashiot] of iron to non-Jews. What is the reason? It is because they forge weapons from them. The Talmud asks: If so, then even hoes and axes should not be sold to them, as they too can be used to forge weapons. Rav Zevid said in response: The r
§ The Mishnah teaches: One may not sell to non-Jews calves or foals. It is taught in a baraita that R' Yehuda permits the sale of a damaged animal because it is incapable of being cured and living normally. The rabbis said to him: But if one mates her, does she not bear offspring? And since one can
The Mishnah also teaches that ben Beteira permits the sale of a horse to a non-Jew. The Talmud notes that it is taught in a baraita: Ben Beteira permits the sale of a horse because the non-Jew uses it for performing an act for which one is not liable to bring a sin-offering, as riding a horse is no