Commentary for Bava Metzia 144:17

תנו רבנן המוליך חבילה ממקום למקום מצאו חבירו ואמר לו תנה לי ואני אעלה לך כדרך שמעלין לך באותו מקום

Thereupon R. Joseph b. Hama said to R. Shesheth — others say, R. Jose b. Abba said to R. Shesheth: Did R. Huna actually rule thus? But a problem was propounded of R. Huna: The students who borrow in Tishri and repay in Tebeth — is it permitted or forbidden?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Tishri is the seventh month of the Jewish year, Tebeth the tenth. If they borrow money in Tishri and repay in kind in Tebeth at the prices of Tishri; or (taking the second interpretation, p. 420, n. 11) if they borrow provisions in Tishri and return the same quantity in Tebeth, is the transaction permitted? ');">³²</span> He replied: Wheat may be procured in Hini and Shili:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. p 377, n. 3. ');">³³</span> if they wish, they can buy [in Tishri] and repay!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hence the transaction is not usurious. This contradicts R. Huna's former ruling. ');">³⁴</span> — At first R. Huna held that one must not borrow, but on hearing that R. Samuel b. Hiyya said in R. Eleazar's name that one may, he too ruled likewise. Our Rabbis taught: If a man was transporting a load from place to place,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To sell, its value there being greater. ');">³⁵</span> when his neighbour met him and proposed: 'Let me have it, and I will pay you for it the price you would obtain there,'

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