Commentary for Avodah Zarah 41:13
ולחוש דלמא אזיל האי ישראל ומזבין לחד עובד כוכבים ואזיל היאך ומזבין לה לתרי אמר אביי אלפני מפקדינן אלפני דלפני לא מפקדינן:
But should we not fear lest one Israelite go and sell a property to one non-Jew, and then another sell to two? Abaye said: We are commanded not to place a stumbling block, but we are not commanded to not to place a stumbling block before stumbling block.
Daf Shevui to Avodah Zarah
Abaye says that the law should not be so strict as to worry that together Jews might sell three properties to non-Jews in one neighborhood, thus allowing them to form a community. One Jew should not sell to three non-Jews. That’s as far as the law needs to go.
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