Commentary for Bava Metzia 183:7
ואי אשמעינן בהא דאפשר לקיומי לבסוף אבל היכא דלא אפשר לקיומי לבסוף אימא לא צריכא
maintain that he is. Alternatively, they differ in respect of R. Assi's dictum. For R. Assi said: Even if engaged merely to gather a single cluster, he may eat it.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The first Tanna accepts this, and means thus: A labourer may eat cucumbers even if he was engaged only to work on these which he actually eats, whilst the Sages permit him to eat more than his wage (for which reason the Rabbis make mention of his wage, whilst the first Tanna omits all reference thereto), but not all that for which he was engaged. ');"><sup>6</sup></span>
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