Commentary for Bava Batra 36:8

לדידי על הניזק להרחיק את עצמו ואפי' משרה וירקא לא בעי רחוקי אלא לדידכו דאמריתו על המזיק תינח משרה וירקא דהני מזקי הני והני לא מזקי הני אלא חרדל ודבורים תרוייהו מזקי אהדדי

— The truth is that R. Jose holds it to be incumbent on the one who suffers the damage to remove himself, and here he was arguing with the Rabbis on their own premises. thus: 'In my view the one who suffers the damage has to remove himself, and therefore in this case it is not necessary to remove even the flax-water from the vegetables. But on your view that the one who inflicts the damage must remove himself, I grant you are right in the case of the flax-water and the vegetables, because the former injures the latter but not vice-versa. But this does not apply to bees and mustard, where both injure one another.' To which the Rabbis can reply that bees do not injure mustard; the grains

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