Celui qui vend une ville a vendu les maisons [et, il va sans dire, les cours, qui sont ses constituants essentiels], boroth, shichin et ma'aroth (voir 2: 1), bains publics, colombes, pressoirs à olives et terres irriguées [c'est-à-dire, jardins et vergers appartenant à la ville]; mais il n'a pas vendu de biens meubles [c'est-à-dire des accessoires tels que la clé, le keleth, etc. (voir 4: 3). Et il va sans dire qu'il n'a pas vendu de blé et d'orge.] Et s'il lui disait: "Cela et tout ce qu'il y a dedans"—même s'il y avait des bêtes et des esclaves, tous sont vendus. [même les esclaves et les bêtes, qui sont mobiles; et, il va sans dire, le blé et l'orge, qui ne sont pas mobiles.] R. Shimon b. Gamliel dit: Celui qui vend une ville a vendu le santer [un esclave affecté à la garde de la ville. La halakha n'est pas conforme à R. Shimon b. Gamliel.]
Bartenura on Mishnah Bava Batra
מכר בתים – and all the more so, courtyards which are the essence of the city.
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Introduction
Mishnah seven discusses what is sold as part of a town, if one should sell the town without specifying what is included in the sale.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Bava Batra
בית השלחין – gardens and orchards that belong to the city.
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If a man sold a town, he has also sold the houses, cisterns, trenches, caves, bath houses, dovecotes, olive presses, and irrigated fields, but not the movable property. But if he had said: “It and all that is in it”, even if cattle and slaves were in it, all of these are sold. Rabban Shimon ben Gamaliel says: “If a man sold a town he has also sold the town watchman.” As we have learned on several occasions in our chapter, we learn in mishnah seven that when a person sells a piece of property, he sells only the parts of that property that are fixed in their place. In this case, when a person sells a town, included in the sale are all of the fixed institutions of that town, such as the houses and the commercial institutions. If he wishes to sell the movable property as well, such as the animals and the slaves, he must specify that he is selling “it and all that is in it”. In that case, he has sold even the cattle and the slaves. Rabban Shimon ben Gamaliel disagrees slightly with the previous opinion. According to him when a person sells a town he sells the town watchman, presumably a slave, as well.
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אבל לא המטלטלין – utensils that are used such as a key, a woman’s work basket and similar kinds of things, and all the more so, that he did not sell wheat and barley.
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Questions for Further Thought: • Why might Rabban Shimon ben Gamaliel hold that when a person sells a town he sells the town watchman but not other slaves?
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הרי כולן מכורים – even slaves and animals that are movables that are unsteady. And, all the more so, wheat and barley that are movables that are not unsteady.
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הסנטר – the slave appointed to guard the city. But the Halakha is not according to Rabban Shimon ben Gamaliel.
