Commentary for Bava Batra 335:10

ר"ש בן גמליאל אומר לשניהם כותבין שנים לזה בעצמו ולזה בעצמו: לימא בכופין על מדת סדום קא מיפלגי

RABBAN SIMEON B. GAMALIEL SAID: TWO [DEEDS] MAY BE WRITTEN FOR THE TWO PARTIES, ONE FOR EACH. May it be suggested [that] they are in dispute on [the principle of] exercising force against a Sodomite character;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra p. 62, n. 3. ');">²⁷</span> for [one] Master<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The first Tanna. ');">²⁸</span> is of the opinion [that] force is exercised<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hence if one of the litigants demands a separate copy of the document for himself for which he offers to pay, and expects the other to pay for another copy, he, acting in the 'character of Sodom', is forced by the court to content himself with one common document towards the cost of which both parties contribute in equal shares. ');">²⁹</span>

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