Commentary for Bava Metzia 155:3

שכר את החמר ואת הקדר וכו' שוכר עליהן או מטען עד כמה שוכר עליהן אמר רב נחמן עד כדי שכרן

IF HE HIRES AN ASS-DRIVER OR A WAGGONER&nbsp;… HE MAY HIRE [LABOURERS] AGAINST THEM, OR DECEIVE THEM. How far may he hire [labourers] against them? — R. Nahman said: Up to their wages.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If the first labourers had done part of the work, but received no wages yet, he may offer the whole sum agreed upon to fresh workers, and pay the first nothing. ');">⁴</span> Raba raised an objection to R. Nahman: Even to forty or fifty <i>zuz</i>.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. p. 442. n. 5. ');">⁵</span>

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