Commentary for Bava Batra 243:5

והיה מכוין ברוח הקדש ואומר זבולן עולה תחום עכו עולה עמו טרף בקלפי של שבטים ועלה בידו זבולן טרף בקלפי של תחומין ועלה בידו תחום עכו

of the tribes and Zebulun came up in his hand. [Likewise] he shook well the urn of the boundaries and the boundary lines of Acco came up in his hand. Animated again by the Holy Spirit, he gave directions, exclaiming: 'Naphtali' is coming up and the boundary lines of Gennesar<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Gennesareth, from the Heb. Kinnereth, [H] a district in Galilee named after the lake of the same name. ');">¹³</span> are coming up with it. [Thereupon] he shook well the urn of the tribes and Naphtali came up in his hand. He, [likewise], shook well the box of the boundaries, and the boundary lines of Gennesar came up in his hand. And [so was the procedure with] every [other] tribe. And the division in the world to come will not be like the division in this world. [In] this world, [should] a man possess a cornfield<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'a field of white.' V. supra 28a. ');">¹⁴</span> he does not possess an orchard; [should he possess] an orchard he does not possess a cornfield, [but] in the world to come<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the Messianic era. ');">¹⁵</span>

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