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1) [line 1] AVAK LASHON HA'RA 1. "Who would have thought that so-and-so would amount to anything?!!"2) [line 2] ROV B'GEZEL - most [people sin] with robbery (for example, through less-than-legal business dealings that prevent others from receiving their due profits) 3) [line 2] HA'KOL B'LASHON HA'RA - all [people sin] with Lashon ha'Ra (see above, entry #1)
4) [line 6] B'ASRA DI'NEHIGEI - in a place where the custom is...
6) [line 15] IM HIT'AH L'SHEVACH; MEKUDESHES - if he misled her for her
benefit, she becomes betrothed (KIDUSHIN)
7) [line 16] HISKABEL LI GITI - "Accept my Get for me" (SHALI'ACH L'KABALAH
/ SHALI'ACH L'HOLACHAH) 8) [line 19] MAR'EH MAKOM HU LO - (lit. it is merely giving him a reference) she was just showing him (her Shali'ach l'Kabalah) the best place to receive the Get for her 9) [line 22] HO'IL UV'ALMA KASHER - since in general, it (a group of two witnesses) is fit [to testify in all matters] 10) [line 27] V'HA D'ABAYEI MAI? - and what about [the ruling of] Abaye [that one witness signed on a Shtar and one witness testifying is invalid]? 11) [line 27] LO SEVIRA LI - I do not hold of it (his ruling)
12) [line 3] AF HACHA NAMI PESULA D'ORAISA - similarly here, it (a group of *two* witnesses) is disqualified by the Torah
13) [line 3] TEDA - You should know [that this is true...] 15) [line 4] CHEVRAYA L'REBBI YIRMEYAH - the colleagues (students of the Yeshivah) to Rebbi Yirmeyah
16) [line 5] ALIBA D'TANA KAMA D'REBBI YEHOSHUA BEN KORCHAH - according to
the Tana Kama who argues with Rebbi Yehoshua ben Korchah (EDUS: TZIRUF
EDUS - combining testimony)
17) [line 12] ANI EINI KEDAI - I am not worthy 19) [line 13] AMAR LEI "ANAN HACHI MASNINAN LAH" - he (Rav Ashi) said to him (Ameimar), "I learned [that the event that you describe actually happened] as follows, (and it had nothing to do with the case of "Ed Echad bi'Chesav v'Ed Echad b'Al Peh," and you therefore have no refutation from it for Abaye's ruling.)"
20) [line 17] ALIBA D'TANA KAMA D'REBBI NASAN - see above, entry #16
22a) [line 32] B'MOSAV TELASA HAVEINA - we were sitting three together (as a
proper session of Beis Din) 23) [line 34] V'AL DA AILUHU L'REBBI YIRMEYAH B'VEI MIDRASHA - and it is because of this (that he answered properly, in either (or all) of the four cases mentioned previously) that they reinstated Rebbi Yirmeyah to the Beis ha'Midrash (the Gemara -- Bava Basra 23b -- describes the event that led to his ejection -- see TOSFOS there, DH v'Al)
24) [line 35] ZUZIN ME'AH D'INUN SIL'IN ESREIN - one hundred Zuzim that are
twenty Sela'im (CURRENCY)
(c) At the time of the Gemara, a laborer's wage could amount to 4 Dinerin (Bava Metzia 76a). A loaf of bread cost 1 Pundeyon (Eruvin 82b) while a cheap loaf cost 1 Isar (ibid. 80b). 1 Isar could also buy a flask of oil (Bava Basra 87b). One Perutah could buy lamps and wicks, one Esrog or one pomegranate (Me'ilah 21a). One cloak or shirt could cost 3 Sela'im, while a good quality cloak could cost double that - 1 golden Dinar (ibid.). A dwelling could be rented for 1 Sela per month or 10 Sela'im per year (Bava Metzia 65a). The rent for a bathhouse (as a commercial undertaking) could amount to 1 golden Dinar per month (ibid. 102a). A pair of oxen (for plowing) could cost 200 Dinerin (Bava Basra 77b). A house or a field could cost 1,000 Dinarin (Bava Metzia 48a) (adapted from Aiding Talmud Study by Rabbi Aryeh Carmell, Feldheim, Yerushalayim, Fourth Edition (under previous title), 5740, p. 80). 25) [line 36] EIN LO ELA ESRIN - he only has (i.e. using this Shtar, he can only claim) twenty [Sela'im, even though one hundred Zuzim equals *twenty-five* Sela'im, we interpret the Shtar to be referring to worn-out Zuzim, one hundred of which are only worth twenty Sela'im]
26) [line 36] D'INUN TELASIN SIL'IN - that are thirty Sela'im
28a) [line 36] KESAF ZUZIN D'INUN - Zuzim of silver that are... [in number] 29) [line 38] DARKONOS - Darkemons, a golden Median coin mentioned in Ezra 2:69, which had the value of two Sela'im (RAMBAM Shekalim 1:3) or one and one half Sela'im (RAMBAN to Shemos 30:12). Its Greek name was a Daric (TIFERES YISRAEL), related to the Darics, a Persian gold (and silver) coin 30) [line 39] HA'KOL HOLECH ACHAR HA'TACHTON - everything goes after the last [time each particular item is mentioned in the Shtar] 31) [line 41] "KESEF," EIN PACHOS MI'DINAR KESEF - [if a loan of] "silver" [is mentioned in a Shtar, it refers to a loan of] not less than a Dinar of silver 32) [line 42] "KESEF B'DINERIN," EIN PACHOS MIBE'SHENEI DINERIN DEHAV KESAF - [if a loan of] "silver in Dinerin" [is mentioned in a Shtar, it refers to a loan of] silver [that weighed] not less than two Dinerin of gold
33) [line 43] NASCHA - a bar of metal (such as silver or gold) 35) [line 44] PERITEI - Ma'os (the smallest coin) [of silver] (TOSFOS RID, TOSFOS DH Eima) 36) [line 44] B'ASRA D'LO SAGI PERITEI D'CHASPA - in a place where Ma'os of silver are not legal tender (rather, the smallest silver coin in use is the Dinar -- TOSFOS RID, TOSFOS DH Eima)
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