Commentary for Bava Batra 294:5

אמר רבא אמר רב נחמן שכיב מרע שאמר ידור פלוני בבית זה יאכל פלוני פירות דקל זה לא אמר כלום עד שיאמר תנו בית זה לפלוני וידור בו תנו דקל זה לפלוני ויאכל פירותיו

unless he used the following expression:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'until he would say'. ');">¹⁶</span> 'Give this house to X that he may live in it', or 'Give this date-tree to X that he may eat of its fruit'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' By transferring the possession of the concrete object. the abstract or the yet non-existing. may also simultaneously he transferred. ');">¹⁷</span> Does this mean to imply<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'to say'. ');">¹⁸</span> that R. Nahman holds the opinion that [only] the rights<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'thing'. ');">¹⁹</span>

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