Commentary for Gittin 25:8

א"ר זביד לעולם בבריא וכדרב הונא אמר רב דאמר רב הונא אמר רב מנה לי בידך תנהו לו לפלוני במעמד שלשתן קנה

R. Papa said that we are indeed dealing here with the case of a man on his death bed, and [the Mishnah is] in agreement with another dictum of Rab, Viz.: 'If a man on his death bed says, Give a <i>maneh</i> to So-and-so out of my belongings, if he said, give this <i>maneh</i>, it is to be given, but if he said simply a <i>maneh</i> it is not to be given, because perhaps he was thinking of a buried <i>maneh</i>. The law is, however, that we do not suspect that anything is buried. Why did not R. Papa take the same view as R. Zebid?

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