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1) [line 3] LO KANAH ELA KENEGED HA'KATZAR - he only acquires the area of the field that is bordered by the shorter boundary, drawing a perpendicular line from the end of the shorter boundary to the point on the longer boundary that is equal to the shorter boundary (see 1st diagram in the RASHBAM)

2) [line 4] V'YIKNEH KENEGED ROSH TOR? - Why does he not acquire the area of the field where a line is drawn from the end of the shorter boundary to the end of the longer boundary? (Rosh Tor means the end of a row -- see 2nd diagram in the RASHBAM)

3) [line 6] ME'CHAD GISA - on one side [of the field that is being sold]
4) [last line] SIYEM LO ES HA'KERANOS - (lit. he demarcated the corners) the boundaries that he specified in the document of sale only included the neighbors who owned fields at the four corners of the field that is being sold

5) [last line] KEMIN GAM - similar to the Greek letter gamma, i.e. the boundaries that he specified in the document of sale only included the neighbors whose fields formed a gamma at two opposite corners of the field that is being sold (thus demarcating the entire field when an imaginary line is drawn to the remaining unspecified *corners*) (see 6th diagram in the RASHBAM)

6) [line 1] B'SEIRUGIN - alternating, i.e. the boundaries that he specified in the document of sale only included the alternating neighbors whose fields bordered the field that is being sold (see 1st diagram in the RASHBAM)

7a) [line 3] KANAH HA'KOL CHUTZ MI'METZAR REVI'I - he acquires the entire [field] except for the last row at the fourth side
b) [line 4] AFILU METZAR REVI'I - he acquires the entire [field], even the last row at the fourth side

8) [line 5] TELEM ECHAD - one row, i.e. he acquires one row surrounding the three sides that were specified

9) [line 9] D'LO MIVLA - that is not contained within [the adjacent two boundaries] (see 3rd diagram in the RASHBAM)

10) [line 10] IKA ALEI RICHBA D'DIKLA - there is on it a patch of young palm trees

11) [line 11] V'HEVEI TISH'AS KABIN (BEIS TISH'AS KABIN) (MEASUREMENTS OF VOLUME)
(a) Equivalents of volume used in the Gemara:

• 1 Kor (= 1 Chomer) = 30 Se'in
• 1 Lesech = 15 Se'in
• 1 Eifah = 3 Se'in
• 1 Se'ah = 6 Kabin
• 1 Tarkav (= 3 Kabin) = 12 Lugin
• 1 Kav = 4 Lugin
• 1 Log (= 1 Rova) = 4 Revi'iyos = 6 Beitzim
• 1 Beitzah = 2 k'Zeisim

• 1 k'Zayis = approximately 0.025, 0.0288 or 0.05 liters, depending upon the differing Halachic opinions.
• 1 Kav = 1.2, 1.38 or 2.4 liters, depending upon the differing Halachicopinions

12) [line 30] SHUDA D'DAYANEI - the estimate of the judges as to weather the seller of the field is generous or not (RASHBAM)

13) [line 34] CHAZINA HANAHU SHETAREI D'NAFKEI MI'BEI MAR - I saw the documents of sale that came out of the Beis Din of the Master, i.e. Rabah

14a) [line 35] PALGA D'IS LI B'AR'A, PALGA - [If Reuven owns a field in partnership with Shimon and he writes in a document of sale to a third party that he is selling him] "the half of this field that I own," [the buyer acquires] half [of the field, i.e. *all* of Reuven's share]
b) [line 36] PALGA B'AR'A D'IS LI, RIV'A - [if he writes that he is selling him] "half of the field that I own," [the buyer acquires] one quarter [of the field, i.e. *half* of Reuven's share]

15) [line 37] MATZAR "AR'A D'MINAH (PALGA) [PELIGA]," PALGA - he specified as one of the boundaries of the field that he was selling, "[my remaining share of] the part of the field that we split," [the buyer acquires] half [of the seller's field]

16) [line 38] MATZAR AR'A D'MINAH PESIKA, TISH'AS KABIN - he specified as one of the boundaries of the field that he was selling, "a piece that is usually cut off a field," [the buyer acquires a plot of land from the seller's field that is] a Beis Tish'ah Kabin (see above, entry #11)

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