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With regard to the orphans of which the rabbis spoke, the phrase is referring to adults, and needless to say it is referring also to minors, whether with regard to the halakha that a debt can be collected from the property of orphans only with an oath, or whether with regard to the halakha that a
§ The Mishnah teaches: Payment of a debt or other obligation is not collected from liened property that has been sold to a third party when the debtor still has unsold property, even when this unsold property is inferior-quality land. Rav Aḥadevoi bar Ami raised a dilemma: What is the halakha with r
The Talmud presents the two sides to this dilemma: Is the halakha that payment is not collected from liened property that has been sold an ordinance that the rabbis instituted due to the loss of the buyers, who would lose the money that they had paid for the property? But in the case of a gift, whe
Mar Kashisha, son of Rav Ḥisda, said to Rav Ashi: Come and hear what was taught in a baraita (Tosefta, Bava Batra 9:6): If a person on his deathbed said: Give 200 dinars to so-and-so, and 300 to so-and-so, and 400 to so-and-so, in this case one does not say that whoever appears first in the deed ac
But if the person on his deathbed said: Give 200 dinars to so-and-so, and after him to so-and-so, and after him to so-and-so, then one says: Anyone who appears first in the deed acquires his money first. Therefore, if a promissory note emerged against him, the creditor first collects from the las