Commentary for Bava Batra 348:9

וכן היה רשב"ג אומר הערב לאשה בכתובתה [וכו']: משה בר עצרי ערבא דכתובתה דכלתיה הוה רב הונא בריה צורבא מדרבנן הוה ודחיקא ליה מילתא אמר אביי ליכא דניזיל דנסביה עצה לרב הונא דנגרשה לדביתהו ותיזיל ותגבי כתובה מאבוה והדר נהדרה

for this [very object].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In order that the guarantor may become the legal possessor of the bond. The amount now due to him can no longer be regarded as a verbal loan but as one secured by a written bond. R. Papa exempts orphans from the payment of a verbal loan only, but not from that which is secured by a bond. The payment of such a bond on the part of the orphans is obligatory. ');">²⁴</span> A certain guarantor to a gentile once paid the gentile before he sued the orphans.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Whose father was the debtor. ');">²⁵</span> Said R. Mordecai to R. Ashi:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' When the claim of the guarantor for compensation from the orphans was submitted to him for decision. ');">²⁶</span>

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