Commentary for Bava Metzia 147:16

ופוסק עמו על הזבל כל ימות השנה חכמים היינו תנא קמא אמר רבא

AND FOR POTTERS' LUMPS OF CLAY. But why? Surely it requires moulding, drying, placing in the oven, burning, and taking out! — [It means,] when they have been moulded and dried. But there are still three [processes wanting]! — [It refers] to a place where the buyer removes [the earthenware from the oven.] AND FOR LIME, WHEN IT HAS ALREADY BEEN PLACED IN THE KILN. But it requires to be burnt, removed [from the kiln], and crushed!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Before it is fit for use. ');">¹³</span> — [It refers] to a place where the purchaser crushes it. But on the view of Samuel, who maintained that if they are to be done by man, even when a hundred [processes are wanting] a contract may be made, why must it have 'BEEN PLACED IN THE KILN? — Say thus: when it is ready for placing in the kiln.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., when he has the materials for making the lime, the fuel, etc., with which the kiln was fired. ');">¹⁴</span> AND FOR POTTERS' LUMPS OF CLAY. Our Rabbis taught: Contracts may not be entered into for potters' lumps of clay until they are kneaded [into lumps]: this is R. Meir's view. R. Jose said: This refers only to white earth;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which is rare and difficult to obtain. ');">¹⁵</span> but for black earth, such as that of Kfar Hanania and its environs, Kfar Sihin<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Both in Galilee. ');">¹⁶</span> and its environs, an agreement may be concluded, for even if one [merchant] has none, another has. Amemar paid money [for earthenware] when he [the manufacturer] had stocked himself with the earth. In accordance with whom [did he do this]? If in accordance with R. Meir? Surely R. Meir ruled [that no contract may be made] until they are kneaded [into clay]!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' But not while it is still earth. ');">¹⁷</span> If with R. Jose, surely he said, Even if one has none, another has?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So that Amemar could have given money even sooner. ');">¹⁸</span> — In truth, it was In accordance with R. Jose, but in Amemar's locality earth [for this purpose] was rare; hence, if he is stocked therewith, each places full reliance;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Upon the transaction, which cannot be rescinded without submission to a curse. ');">¹⁹</span> if not, they place no reliance.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And each may retract. ');">²⁰</span> ONE MAY ALSO MAKE A FIXED CONTRACT FOR MANURE FOR THE WHOLE YEAR. But are not the Sages identical with the first Tanna?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Mishnah, 72b. ');">²¹</span> — Raba said:

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