Commentary for Bava Batra 333:5

ההוא דהוה כתיב ביה תילתא בפרדיסא אזל מחקיה לגגיה דבי"ת וכרעיה ושויה ופרדיסא אתא לקמיה דאביי אמר ליה מאי טעמא רויח ליה עלמא להאי וי"ו כפתיה ואודי

and converted<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'made'. ');">²⁵</span> [the second word] into, 'and an orchard'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Heb., ufardisa, [H] 'and an orchard'. The text was thus made to read, 'in my garden a third and an (viz.. all the) orchard'; and on the strength of this altered text the buyer claimed not only a portion of the field but also the entire orchard. ');">²⁶</span> [When] he appeared before Abaye [the latter] said to him, 'Why has the <i>Waw</i> so much space round about it?'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'What is the reason (why) the world was widened for this waw'. ');">²⁷</span> Having been placed under arrest<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit. 'he bound him'. ');">²⁸</span> he confessed. In a certain [deed] there was entered, 'the portion of Reuben and Simeon, brothers'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H], brothers'. The deed stated that the buyer had acquired the portion of the two brothers only. that belonging to any other brother not being included in the sale. ');">²⁹</span>

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