## Gittin Daf 14b

###### Gittin 14b:1
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אֲמַר לְהוּ לְרַבִּי דּוֹסְתַּאי בַּר רַבִּי יַנַּאי וּלְרַבִּי יוֹסֵי בַּר כֵּיפַר: בַּהֲדֵי דְּאָתֵיתוּ, אַתְיוּהּ נִיהֲלִי. אֲזוּל, יַהֲבֵיהּ נִיהֲלֵיהּ. אָמְרִי לְהוּ: נִקְנֵי מִינַּיְיכוּ; אָמְרִי לְהוּ: לָא. אָמְרִי לְהוּ: אַהְדְּרֵיהּ נִיהֲלַן.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
Rabbi Aḥai **said to Rabbi Dostai bar Rabbi Yannai and to Rabbi Yosei bar Keifar: When you come** from Neharde’a **bring** the vessel **to me. They went** to Neharde’a and the people who were in possession of the vessel **gave it to them.** After handing over the vessel, those people **said to them: Let us perform** an act of **acquisition with you,** so that you will be responsible for the vessel until you reach Rabbi Aḥai. The agents **said to them: No;** we do not want to do this. **They said to them:** If so, **return** the vessel **to us,** as we do not wish to transfer it in such a manner that we retain responsibility.


###### Gittin 14b:2
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רַבִּי דּוֹסְתַּאי בְּרַבִּי יַנַּאי אֲמַר לְהוּ: אִין; רַבִּי יוֹסֵי בַּר כֵּיפַר אֲמַר לְהוּ: לָא. הֲווֹ קָא מְצַעֲרוּ לֵיהּ, אֲמַר לֵיהּ: חֲזִי מָר הֵיכִי קָא עָבֵיד! אֲמַר לְהוּ: טָב רְמוֹ לֵיהּ.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**Rabbi Dostai, son of Rabbi Yannai, said to them: Yes,** I am willing to return it. However, **Rabbi Yosei bar Keifar said to them: No,** as you do not have the right to retract in this situation. **They tormented** Rabbi Yosei bar Keifar to force him to agree to return the vessel. Rabbi Yosei bar Keifar **said to** Rabbi Dostai: **See,** my **Master, what** they are **doing** to me. Rabbi Dostai **said to them:** You are acting **well; hit him.**


###### Gittin 14b:3
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כִּי אֲתוֹ לְגַבֵּיהּ, אֲמַר לֵיהּ: חֲזִי מָר, לָא מִיסָּתְיֵיהּ דְּלָא סַיְּיעַן, אֶלָּא אֲמַר לְהוּ נָמֵי ״טָב רְמוֹ לֵיהּ״! אֲמַר לֵיהּ: אַמַּאי תֶּיעְבֵּד הָכִי?

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**When** these **two** agents **came before** Rabbi Aḥai, Rabbi Yosei bar Keifar **said to him: See,** my **Master, not only did** Rabbi Dostai **not support me; rather, he** even **said to them:** You are acting **well; hit him.** Rabbi Aḥai **said to** Rabbi Dostai: **Why did you do this?**


###### Gittin 14b:4
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אֲמַר לֵיהּ: אוֹתָן בְּנֵי אָדָם – הֵן אַמָּה, וְכוֹבָעָן אַמָּהּ, וּמְדַבְּרִין מֵחֶצְיֵיהֶן, וּשְׁמוֹתֵיהֶן מְבוֹהָלִין: ׳אַרְדָּא׳ וְ׳אַרְטָא׳ וּ׳פִילֵי בְּרֵישׁ׳; אוֹמְרִין ״כְּפוֹתוּ״ – כּוֹפְתִין; אוֹמְרִין ״הֲרוֹגוּ״ – הוֹרְגִין; אִילּוּ הָרְגוּ אֶת דּוֹסְתַּאי, מִי נָתַן לְיַנַּאי אַבָּא בַּר כְּמוֹתִי.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
Rabbi Dostai **said to him: Those people** who were in possession of the vessel, **they are** the size of **a cubit, and their hats were a cubit, and they spoke from their midpoints, and their names were frightening: Arda and Arta and Pili Bereish.** If one were to **say to them: Restrain** this person, **they would restrain** him. If one were to **say** to them: **Kill** him, **they would kill. Had they killed Dostai,** i.e., me, **who would give Yannai,** my **father,** another **son like me?**


###### Gittin 14b:5
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אֲמַר לֵיהּ: בְּנֵי אָדָם הַלָּלוּ קְרוֹבִים לַמַּלְכוּת הֵן? אָמַר לֵיהּ: הֵן. יֵשׁ לָהֶן סוּסִים וּפְרָדִים שֶׁרָצִים אַחֲרֵיהֶן? אֲמַר לֵיהּ: הֵן. אֲמַר לֵיהּ: אִי הָכִי, שַׁפִּיר עֲבַדְתְּ.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
Rabbi Aḥai **said to him: Are these people close to the government?** Rabbi Dostai **said to him: Yes.** Rabbi Aḥai asked him: **Do they have horses and mules that run after them,** i.e., do they have servants to perform their bidding? Rabbi Dostai **said to them: Yes.** Rabbi Aḥai **said to him: If so, you acted well,** as the situation was entirely out of your control.


###### Gittin 14b:6
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״הוֹלֵךְ מָנֶה לִפְלוֹנִי״, וְהָלַךְ וּבִקְּשׁוֹ וְלֹא מְצָאוֹ – תָּנֵי חֲדָא: יַחְזְרוּ לַמְשַׁלֵּחַ; וְתַנְיָא אִידַּךְ: לְיוֹרְשֵׁי מִי שֶׁנִּשְׁתַּלְחוּ לוֹ.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
§ The Gemara discusses the meaning of the expression: Deliver, in relation to a gift. With regard to one who said to his agent: **Deliver one hundred dinars to so-and-so, and** the agent **went and searched** for that person **but did not find him,** as he had died, it **is taught** in **one** *baraita*: The money **should be returned to the sender. And it is taught** in **another** *baraita*: The money should be given **to the heirs of the one to whom it was sent.**


###### Gittin 14b:7
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לֵימָא בְּהָא קָמִיפַּלְגִי – דְּמָר סָבַר: ״הוֹלֵךְ״ כִּ״זְכִי״, וּמָר סָבַר: ״הוֹלֵךְ״ לָאו כִּ״זְכִי״?

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara suggests: **Let us say that they disagree about this, as** one **Sage,** in the second *baraita*, **holds** that in the case of a gift, saying: **Deliver, is like** saying: **Acquire,** and consequently the agent took possession of the money on behalf of the one to whom it was sent. Therefore, the heirs inherit this item. **And** one **Sage,** in the first *baraita*, **holds** that in the case of a gift, saying: **Deliver, is not like** saying: **Acquire,** and therefore the agent must return the money to the sender.


###### Gittin 14b:8
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אָמַר רַבִּי אַבָּא בַּר מֶמֶל: דְּכוּלֵּי עָלְמָא ״הוֹלֵךְ״ לָאו כִּ״זְכִי״; וְלָא קַשְׁיָא – הָא בְּבָרִיא, הָא בִּשְׁכִיב מְרַע.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**Rabbi Abba bar Memel said:** No; **everyone agrees** that in the case of a gift, saying: **Deliver, is not like** saying: **Acquire, and** the apparent contradiction between the two *baraitot* is **not difficult: This** *baraita*, which says that the agent must return the money to the sender, is dealing **with** a case where the giver was **a healthy person** when he issued the instructions. Such a gift is acquired by the recipient only once it reaches his possession, and this recipient died before the gift reached him. Conversely, **that** *baraita*, which says that he should give it to the heirs of the one to whom it was sent, deals **with** the instructions of a person **on his deathbed.** Since the gift of a dying person is immediately acquired by the recipient, this recipient acquired it straightaway, and therefore it must be given to his heirs.


###### Gittin 14b:9
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רַב זְבִיד אָמַר: הָא וְהָא בִּשְׁכִיב מְרַע; הָא – דְּאִיתֵיהּ לִמְקַבֵּל בִּשְׁעַת מַתַּן מָעוֹת, הָא – דְּלֵיתֵיהּ לִמְקַבֵּל בִּשְׁעַת מַתַּן מָעוֹת.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**Rav Zevid said:** It is possible to say that saying: Deliver, is not like saying: Acquire, and that both **this** *baraita* **and that** *baraita* are dealing **with** a case where the giver was a person **on his deathbed.** Instead, the difference between the two sources is that **this** *baraita*, which states that he should give it to the recipient’s heirs, is referring to a case **where the recipient was** alive **at the time of the giving of the money.** Consequently, when the sender gives the money to the agent the recipient immediately acquires it, and his heirs claim it in his stead. **That** *baraita*, which says that the agent must return the money to the sender, is referring to a case **where the recipient was not** alive **at the time of the giving of the money,** and consequently the agent could not acquire the money on his behalf.


###### Gittin 14b:10
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רַב פָּפָּא אָמַר: הָא וְהָא בְּבָרִיא; הָא – דְּמִית מְקַבֵּל בְּחַיֵּי נוֹתֵן, הָא – דְּמִית נוֹתֵן בְּחַיֵּי מְקַבֵּל.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**Rav Pappa said** yet another explanation of the *baraita*: **This** *baraita* **and that** *baraita* are both dealing **with a healthy person** who subsequently died. The difference is that **this** *baraita*, which said that the agent must return the money to the sender, is dealing with a case **where the recipient died in the lifetime of the giver,** and as he did not acquire the money himself his heirs do not take possession of it either. By contrast, **that** *baraita*, which states that the money should be given to the heirs of the recipient, is dealing with a case **where the giver died in the lifetime of the recipient.** Once he dies it is a mitzva to fulfill his wishes, and therefore the recipient, and his heirs after him, are entitled to the money.


###### Gittin 14b:11
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לֵימָא ״הוֹלֵךְ״ כִּ״זְכִי״ תַּנָּאֵי הִיא? דְּתַנְיָא: ״הוֹלֵךְ מָנֶה לִפְלוֹנִי״, וְהָלַךְ וּבִקְּשׁוֹ וְלֹא מְצָאוֹ, יַחְזְרוּ לַמְשַׁלֵּחַ. מֵת מְשַׁלֵּחַ – רַבִּי נָתָן וְרַבִּי יַעֲקֹב אָמְרוּ: יַחְזְרוּ לְיוֹרְשֵׁי מְשַׁלֵּחַ, וְיֵשׁ אוֹמְרִים: לְיוֹרְשֵׁי מִי שֶׁנִּשְׁתַּלְחוּ לוֹ.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara further suggests: **Shall we say** that the issue of whether saying: **Deliver, is like** saying: **Acquire, is** a dispute between ***tanna’im*?** This is **as it is taught** in a *baraita*, that if one person said to another: **Deliver one hundred dinars to so-and-so, and he went and searched for him but did not find him,** as he had died, the money **should be returned to the sender.** If **the sender died, Rabbi Natan and Rabbi Ya’akov said:** The money **should be returned to the heirs of the sender. And some say:** It should be given to **the heirs of the one to whom it was sent.**


###### Gittin 14b:12
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רַבִּי יְהוּדָה הַנָּשִׂיא אָמַר מִשּׁוּם רַבִּי יַעֲקֹב, שֶׁאָמַר מִשּׁוּם רַבִּי מֵאִיר: מִצְוָה לְקַיֵּים דִּבְרֵי הַמֵּת. וַחֲכָמִים אוֹמְרִים: יַחְלוֹקוּ. וְכָאן אָמְרוּ: כֹּל מַה שֶּׁיִּרְצֶה שָׁלִיחַ – יַעֲשֶׂה. אָמַר רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן הַנָּשִׂיא: עַל יָדִי הָיָה מַעֲשֶׂה, וְאָמְרוּ: יַחְזְרוּ לְיוֹרְשֵׁי מְשַׁלֵּחַ.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The *baraita* continues: **Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi said in the name of Rabbi Ya’akov, who said** this **in the name of Rabbi Meir: It is a mitzva to fulfill the statement of the dead.** Therefore the money should be given to the heirs of the one to whom it was sent. **And the Rabbis say:** Due to the uncertainty, **they should divide** it. **And here,** in Babylonia, **they said: Whatever the agent wishes to do he may do. Rabbi Shimon HaNasi said:** When **an incident** of this kind occurred **under my** jurisdiction I inquired into how to proceed, **and** the Sages **said** to me: The money **should be returned to the heirs of the sender.**


###### Gittin 14b:13
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מַאי, לָאו בְּהָא קָמִיפַּלְגִי – דְּתַנָּא קַמָּא סָבַר: ״הוֹלֵךְ״ לָאו כִּ״זְכִי״; וְרַבִּי נָתָן וְרַבִּי יַעֲקֹב נָמֵי – ״הוֹלֵךְ״ לָאו כִּ״זְכִי״, וְאַף עַל גַּב דְּמִית, לָא אָמְרִינַן ״מִצְוָה לְקַיֵּים דִּבְרֵי הַמֵּת״; וְיֵשׁ אוֹמְרִים – ״הוֹלֵךְ״ כִּ״זְכִי״;

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara suggests: **What, is it not** correct to say that **they disagree about this** issue, **that the first *tanna* holds** that saying: **Deliver, is not like** saying: **Acquire,** and therefore the money should be returned to the sender? **And Rabbi Natan and Rabbi Ya’akov also** hold that saying: **Deliver, is not like** saying: **Acquire, but** they add that **even though** the sender **died, one does not say: It is a mitzva to fulfill the statement of the dead.** Consequently, the money is returned to the sender’s heirs. **And** the Sages in the clause beginning: **Some say,** claim that saying: **Deliver, is like** saying: **Acquire.** Therefore the recipient takes possession of the money immediately, and it is given to his heirs.


###### Gittin 14b:14
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רַבִּי יְהוּדָה הַנָּשִׂיא אָמַר מִשּׁוּם רַבִּי יַעֲקֹב שֶׁאָמַר מִשּׁוּם רַבִּי מֵאִיר – ״הוֹלֵךְ״ לָאו כִּ״זְכִי״, מִיהוּ, הֵיכָא דְּמִית, אָמְרִינַן מִצְוָה לְקַיֵּים דִּבְרֵי הַמֵּת;

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
And **Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi,** who **said in the name of Rabbi Ya’akov, who said** this **in the name of Rabbi Meir,** also holds that saying: **Deliver, is not like** saying: **Acquire. However,** in a case **where** the sender **died we say** that **it is a mitzva to fulfill the statement of the dead.** Therefore, the one hundred dinars should be given to the recipient or his heirs.


###### Gittin 14b:15
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וַחֲכָמִים אוֹמְרִים: יַחְלוֹקוּ – מְסַפְּקָא לְהוּ; וְכָאן אָמְרוּ – שׁוּדָא עָדִיף; וְרַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן הַנָּשִׂיא – מַעֲשֶׂה אֲתָא לְאַשְׁמוֹעִינַן.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**And the Rabbis say: They should divide it,** because **they** are **uncertain** about the *halakha* in this situation. **And** the Sages in the clause beginning: **Here they said,** maintain that in this case **the discretion [*shuda*]** of the agent **is preferable** to an even division between the parties. **And Rabbi Shimon HaNasi** does not offer an opinion of his own; rather, **he came to teach us an incident** in which this case was decided in practice.


###### Gittin 14b:16
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לָא, בְּבָרִיא דְּכוּלֵּי עָלְמָא לָא פְּלִיגִי; וְהָכָא בְּמַאי עָסְקִינַן – בִּשְׁכִיב מְרַע, וּבִפְלוּגְתָּא דְּרַבִּי אֶלְעָזָר וְרַבָּנַן קָמִיפַּלְגִי.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara rejects this suggestion: **No;** it is possible that **in** a case where the giver was **a healthy person** when he appointed the agent **everyone agrees** that saying: Deliver, is not like saying: Acquire, **and with what are we dealing here?** We are dealing with a person **on his deathbed** who sent these one hundred dinars, **and they disagree in the dispute between Rabbi Elazar and the Rabbis.**


###### Gittin 14b:17
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דִּתְנַן: הַמְחַלֵּק נְכָסָיו עַל פִּיו, רַבִּי אֶלְעָזָר אוֹמֵר: אֶחָד בָּרִיא וְאֶחָד מְסוּכָּן; נְכָסִים שֶׁיֵּשׁ לָהֶן אַחְרָיוּת – נִקְנִין בְּכֶסֶף וּבִשְׁטָר וּבַחֲזָקָה, וְשֶׁאֵין לָהֶן אַחְרָיוּת – אֵין נִקְנִין אֶלָּא בִּמְשִׁיכָה. וַחֲכָמִים אוֹמְרִים: אֵלּוּ וָאֵלּוּ נִקְנִין בַּאֲמִירָה.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
This is **as we learned** in a mishna (*Bava Batra* 156a): With regard to **one who divides his property orally, Rabbi Elazar says: Both** in the case of **a healthy person and** that of **a dangerously ill person, property that serves as a guarantee,** i.e., land, **is acquired by** means of **money, through a document, or by taking possession. And** property **that does not serve as a guarantee,** i.e., movable property, **can be acquired only through pulling. And the Rabbis say:** If the giver is on his deathbed, then both **this** property **and that** property **can be acquired through speech,** and there is no need for an additional act of acquisition.


###### Gittin 14b:18
[Gittin 14b:18](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Gittin/r/14b:18)

אָמְרוּ לוֹ: מַעֲשֶׂה בְּאִמָּן שֶׁל בְּנֵי רוֹכֵל שֶׁהָיְתָה חוֹלָה, וְאָמְרָה: ״תִּינָּתֵן

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**They said to** Rabbi Elazar: Didn’t **an incident** of this kind occur **with regard to the mother** of the family **of the sons of Rokhel, who was ill, and she said: Give**