Commentary for Bava Metzia 205:16

מתני׳ <big><strong>המקבל</strong></big> שדה מחבירו מקום שנהגו לקצור יקצור לעקור יעקור לחרוש אחריו יחרוש הכל כמנהג המדינה כשם שחולקין בתבואה כך חולקין בתבן ובקש כשם שחולקין ביין כך חולקין

HIM WITH ANOTHER. IF IT WAS A SMALL ONE, HE CANNOT FURNISH HIM WITH A LARGE ONE, OR VICE VERSA. NOR CAN HE OFFER HIM TWO INSTEAD OF ONE, OR ONE INSTEAD OF TWO. HE MAY NEITHER DIMINISH NOR INCREASE THE NUMBER OF WINDOWS, EXCEPTING BY COMMON AGREEMENT. <b><i>GEMARA</i></b>. What are the circumstances? If he stipulated, 'This house', then if it falls, he is quit [of any further obligation]. Whilst if he said, 'A house,' without specifying which, why cannot he provide two instead of one, or a large house instead of a small? — Said Resh Lakish: It means that he had said to him, 'The house which I let to you is of this length.' If so, why teach it?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' It is obvious. ');">¹⁵</span> — But when Rabin came,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' From Palestine to Babylon. ');">¹⁶</span> he said in the name of Resh Lakish: It means that he said, 'I let you a house like this one.' But still [the difficulty remains,] Why state it? — It is necessary to teach it only if it [the house shewn as a model] stood on the river bank. I might think, what is meant by 'like this'? One situated on the river bank.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the locality. ');">¹⁷</span> Therefore we are taught [otherwise]. <b><i>MISHNAH</i></b>. IF ONE LEASES A FIELD FROM HIS NEIGHBOUR,<a rel="footnote" href="#103a_18">¹</a> WHERE IT IS THE USAGE TO CUT [THE CROPS], HE MUST CUT; TO UPROOT [THEM], HE MUST UPROOT [THEM]; TO PLOUGH AFTER IT,<a rel="footnote" href="#103a_19">²</a> HE MUST PLOUGH AFTER IT. IT IS ALL DETERMINED BY LOCAL CUSTOM. AND JUST AS THEY DIVIDE THE GRAIN.<a rel="footnote" href="#103a_20">³</a> SO THEY ALSO SHARE IN THE STRAW AND STUBBLE. AND JUST AS THEY DIVIDE THE WINE, SO DO THEY SHARE

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