Se alguém vende vinho ou óleo a seu vizinho, e eles se tornam mais queridos ou mais baratos —Se (eles se tornaram mais caros ou mais baratos) antes que a medida estivesse completa, é o vendedor; se depois, o comprador. [Estamos falando de um vaso de medição que não pertence a nenhum e que foi emprestado a ambos. É emprestado ao vendedor até que seja preenchido e, posteriormente, ao comprador. Portanto, antes de a medida ser preenchida, momento em que o navio é emprestado ao vendedor, o comprador não adquire. E depois que a medida é preenchida, quando o navio é emprestado ao comprador, o comprador adquire.] E se houvesse um intermediário entre eles e o jarro [(que era dele)] quebrasse, ele quebraria para o intermediário ( isto é, ele é responsável) [e não dizemos que ele é o mensageiro do comprador e que ele quebrou para o comprador.] E ele [o vendedor] deve "pingar" para ele [o comprador] três gotas [do que aderido às laterais do vaso de medição após o derramamento do vinho ou do óleo.] Se ele se virar e coletar, ele pertence ao vendedor [isto é, se ele virar o vaso de medição de lado depois de derramar o óleo ou o vinho e "pingou" três gotas, e o exsudato do vaso de medição coletado em um ponto no fundo, pertence ao vendedor, o comprador "desesperou-o".] Um lojista não precisa "pingar" três gotas, [sendo preocupado com a venda.] R. Yehudah diz: Ele está isento [de fazê-lo apenas] perto do anoitecer na véspera do sábado. [A halachá não está de acordo com R. Yehudah.]
Bartenura on Mishnah Bava Batra
עד של נתמלאה המדה – it (i.e., the Mishnah) is speaking about the measure [of a middleman] that is not either of theirs, and the lender lent to both of them, it is borrowed by the seller; therefore, before the measure was filled up, the utensil is lent to the seller, and the burying did not acquire it. Once the measure was filled up, the utensil is lent to the buyer; the buyer has acquired it, for he has acquired it. And we are speaking of a market-stand underneath a colonnade or in the domain of the purchaser.
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Introduction
Mishnah eight continues to define the precise moment when a sale occurs. The last section of the mishnah teaches the procedure for measuring out sold liquids.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Bava Batra
היה סרסור ביניהם ונשברה החבית – the utensil was his (i.e., the agent’s/middleman’s).
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If a man sold wine or oil to his fellow, and its value rose or fell, if [the price rose or fell] before the measure was filled up, it belongs to the seller, [and he may refuse to sell except at the higher price]. But if [the price rose or fell] after the measure was filled up, it belongs to the buyer [and he may refuse to buy except at the lower price]. With regards to the selling of wine and oil, the point in which the sale is final is the point at which the measuring container fills up. If the price of the wine or oil should rise before it fills up, the seller can demand the higher rate. If the price fluctuated after it was full, the buyer need only pay the lower rate.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Bava Batra
נשברה לסרסור – and we don’t say that he is the agent of the purchaser and it was broken by the purchaser.
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If there was a middleman between them, and the jar broke, it is broken to [the loss of] the middleman. If a middleman acted as an agent for the buyer and seller and the measuring cup should break thereby causing the loss of the wine or oil, the middleman is responsible to recompense for the loss.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Bava Batra
וחייב להטיף לו ג' טפין – the seller to the purchaser from the what cleaved to the walls of the measure after he had emptied out the wine or the oil.
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[After emptying the measure] the seller must let three more drops drip [for the buyer]. If he then turned the measure over and drained it off, what flows out belongs to the seller. The shopkeeper is not obligated to let three more drops drip. Rabbi Judah says: “[Only] on the eve of Shabbath as it becomes dark is he exempt.” When the seller pours the oil from the measuring cup into the vessel of the buyer, he must wait until three drops have spilled out. After this point, any oil that is stuck to the sides of the vessel belong to the seller. Since a shopkeeper is busy with many customers, he need not wait after pouring to ensure that three drops come out of the container. According to Rabbi Judah, this law is true only before the Shabbath, which is a time when the shopkeeper would be especially busy. At other times during the week, he too must wait for three drops to drip out of the measuring container.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Bava Batra
הרכינה ומיצת – he turned it the measure over on its side after he emptied the oil or the wine and let it drip three drops and what was drained of the measure was gathered at the rim of the utensil to one place, and they belong to the seller, for the purchaser had despaired of it.
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Questions for Further Thought: • Must the seller sell at the lower rate if the price went down before the measuring cup was full?? • Section three: Why might one have thought that the middleman would not be responsible if the measuring cup broke? If he was not responsible who would be?
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Bartenura on Mishnah Bava Batra
והחנוני אינו חייב להטיף ג' טפין – because he is preoccupied that he is selling every hour.
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ר' יהודה אומר – they did not say that the storekeeper is exempt from letting three drops drip out, but rather, it was the Eve of the Sabbath near dusk. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yehuda.
