Commentary for Bava Batra 311:2

אלא קים להו לרבנן דינוקא מקרבא דעתיה גבי זוזי ואי אמרת זביניה זביני זמנין דמקרקשי ליה זוזי אזיל מזבין לכולהו נכסי דאבוה אבל גבי מתנה אי לאו דהוה ליה הנאה מיניה לא הוה יהיב ליה מתנה אמרו רבנן תיהוי מתנתו מתנה דלעבידו להו מילי

But [this is the reason]: The Rabbis were well aware that a child is susceptible to the temptations of money; and if it would have been laid down<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'You said'. ');">⁴</span> [that] a sale of his is legally valid, [people] might sometimes rattle money before him [and] he would be tempted<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'go'. ');">⁵</span> to sell all the possessions of his [dead father]. In the case of a gift, however, [it is known that] had he not had [some] benefit from him<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The donee. ');">⁶</span>

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