Commentary for Bava Batra 243:10

ולא נתחלקה אלא לכספים שנאמר בין רב למעט למאי אילימא לשופרא וסניא אטו בשופטני עסקינן אלא לקרובה ורחוקה

[it could he retorted,] 'Are we discussing fools'?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' What man in his senses would consent to take a portion in an inferior soil without getting compensation from him who obtained a portion in a soil of better quality. What need, then is there to state such and obvious thing? ');">²⁷</span> — But, [this is the explanation, in respect] of [an estate that was] near and [one that was distant.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Though equality in the distribution was obtained by giving larger portions of inferior soil against smaller portions of superior soil, further compensation was paid, by those who obtained land nearer to Jerusalem, to those whose lands were further away. The nearer an estate was to Jerusalem the higher was its value. ');">²⁸</span> [This<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The view that compensation for distance was paid with money. ');">²⁹</span>

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