Commentary for Bava Metzia 52:13

ורבי אלעזר הא מנא ליה אמר רבא מתניתין קשיתיה מאי אריא דתני בין הכסא לשולחני של שולחני ליתני על שולחן אי נמי מצא בשולחנות כדקתני רישא מצא בחנות שלו אלא ש"מ אפי' מונחין על גבי שולחן הרי אלו שלו:

Raba also said: If a man sees his neighbour drop a <i>zuz</i> in sand, and then finds and takes it, he is not bound to return it. Why? He from whom it fell abandons it, and even if he is seen to bring a sieve and sift [the sand], he may merely be reasoning. 'Just as I dropped something, so may another have lost an article, and I will find it.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' But he has no hopes of finding his own, which he has already abandoned. Therefore the finder need not return it. ');">¹²</span>

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