Commentary for Bava Metzia 154:2
מני אילימא רבנן מאי איריא שמע שמת לו מת או שאחזתו חמה דאניס כי לא אניס נמי הא אמרו רבנן יד פועל על העליונה אלא לאו ר' דוסא היא וש"מ לא שאני ליה לרבי דוסא בין שכירות לקבלנות
if a contract worker, he must pay him his contract price. Now, with whom does this agree? If with the Rabbis, why particularly if he learns that he has suffered a bereavement or is smitten with fever and so unfortunately compelled [to break the agreement]? Even if he is not compelled, surely the Rabbis maintain that the labourer has the advantage! Hence it must agree with R. Dosa, thus proving that he allows no distinction between time work and contract work! — Said R. Nahman b. Isaac: Here the reference is to a thing of irretrievable loss, and therefore it agrees with all.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' All agree that the labourer is in this case at a disadvantage, unless he is unavoidably prevented from adhering to his bargain. ');"><sup>2</sup></span>
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