Commentary for Bava Kamma 195:5
ואמר רבה השף מטבע של חבירו פטור מאי טעמא דהא לא עבד ולא מידי וה"מ דמחייה בקורנסא וטרשיה אבל שייפא בשופינא חסורי חסריה
and as such would have been liable to make [proper] restitution.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. Lev. V, 23. ');"><sup>8</sup></span> Raba raised an objection [from the following:] 'Redemption [of the second tithe] cannot be made by means of money not in one's actual possession, such as if he had money in Castra or in the King's Mountain<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [Har-ha-Melek, also known as Tur Malka. There is still a good deal of uncertainty in regard to the identification of these two localities. Buchler JQR. 1904. 181 ff. maintains that the reference in both cases is to Roman fortifications, access to which was barred to the Jews, the former being simply the Roman Castra, the latter, a fortification situated somewhere in Upper Idumea. For other views, v. Schlatter, Tage Trojans, p. 28, and Neubauer, Geographie, p. 196.] ');"><sup>9</sup></span>
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