Related%20passage for Bava Metzia 3:7

הַמַּפְקִיד פֵּרוֹת אֵצֶל חֲבֵרוֹ, הֲרֵי זֶה יוֹצִיא לוֹ חֶסְרוֹנוֹת. לְחִטִּין וּלְאֹרֶז, תִּשְׁעָה חֲצָאֵי קַבִּין לְכוֹר, לִשְׂעֹרִין וּלְדֹחַן, תִּשְׁעָה קַבִּין לְכוֹר, לְכֻסְמִין וּלְזֶרַע פִּשְׁתָּן, שָׁלשׁ סְאִין לְכוֹר. הַכֹּל לְפִי הַמִּדָּה, הַכֹּל לְפִי הַזְּמָן. אָמַר רַבִּי יוֹחָנָן בֶּן נוּרִי, וְכִי מָה אִכְפַּת לָהֶן לָעַכְבָּרִין, וַהֲלֹא אוֹכְלוֹת בֵּין מֵהַרְבֵּה וּבֵין מִקִּמְעָא. אֶלָּא אֵינוֹ מוֹצִיא לוֹ חֶסְרוֹנוֹת אֶלָּא לְכוֹר אֶחָד בִּלְבָד. רַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר, אִם הָיְתָה מִדָּה מְרֻבָּה, אֵינוֹ מוֹצִיא לוֹ חֶסְרוֹנוֹת, מִפְּנֵי שֶׁמּוֹתִירוֹת:

If one deposited fruits with his neighbor [and the latter mixed them up with his fruits and ate of them without knowing how much, when he comes to return them,] he deducts for [the normal] loss: for wheat and rice, nine half-kavin to a kor. [The kor is thirty sa'ah; the sa'ah is six kavin.] For barley and millet, nine kavin to a kor. For spelt and flax seed, three sa'ah to a kor, all according to the amount [i.e., the same for each kor], all according to the time [that he left them with him. For each year he deducts that amount.] R. Yochanan b. Nuri said: What difference does it make to the mice? Do they not eat [the same amount] from a large measure as from a small one? [Therefore,] he deducts the loss only for one kor, [i.e., nine half-kavin for a year, whether for one kor or for ten.] R. Yehudah says: If it were a large amount [i.e., if he deposited with him a large amount, ten korim and above], he does not deduct for loss, for there is a surplus. [For in the time of threshing, when the grain is deposited, it is dry; and in the rainy season, when it is returned, it is swollen, so that too much is not lost because of the mice, the mice not eating that much from ten korim. Therefore, the swelling compensates for the eating of the mice. The halachah is neither in accordance with R. Yehudah nor with R. Yochanan b. Nuri. All of these measurements obtain in Eretz Yisrael and in the days of the tannaim. But in other lands and in these times, all is in accordance with the normal loss of seeds in those lands and times.]

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