Commentary for Bava Metzia 36:2
והא בי דינא דרב הונא דכי מקום שהשיירות מצויות דמי וקא פשיט רבה דיחזיר אלמא אי הוחזקו שני יוסף בן שמעון אין אי לא לא
R. Hisda then said to Rabbah: Go and consider it carefully, for in the evening R. Huna will ask you about it. So he went and examined it thoroughly, and he found that we had learnt [in a Mishnah]: Every document endorsed by the Court shall be returned.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Mishnah infra 20a. The endorsement of the Court shows that the transaction referred to in the document has been completed, so that the apprehension that the person who authorised the document to be written may have changed his mind and refused to complete the transaction, does not arise. As the bill of divorcement referred to by R. Huna was found in the Rabbi's court-house it must be assumed that it was lost after it was dealt with by the Court, and that therefore it must be treated like 'a document endorsed by the Court'. ');"><sup>2</sup></span>
Explore commentary for Bava Metzia 36:2. In-depth commentary and analysis from classical Jewish sources.