Commentary for Bava Batra 339:17

כי הא דרב יצחק בר יוסף הוה מסיק ביה זוזי ברבי אבא אתא לקמיה דרבי יצחק נפחא אמר פרעתיך בפני פלוני ופלוני אמר ליה רבי יצחק יבואו פלוני ופלוני ויעידו אמר ליה אי לא אתו לא מהימנינא והא קיימא לן המלוה את חבירו בעדים אינו צריך לפרעו בעדים

And when this was discussed [the following] question was raised: Does not Rabbi accept<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'is there not'. ');">³²</span> what we have learnt: Where two [men] hold a cloth, one pleading, 'I found it' and the other [also] pleading, 'I found it', the one must take an oath that he possesses in it no less than a half and the other must take an oath that he possesses in it no less than a half and they divide [it]?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' B.M. 2a. As the cloth in that case is divided so here the amount of the debt should be divided. Why, then, did Rabbi say that the entire amount of the debt was to be repaid to the creditor? ');">³³</span>

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