Commentary for Kiddushin 23:4
רבא אמר היינו טעמא דב"ש שלא יהו בנות ישראל כהפקר :
Said Abaye to him: But thereon we learnt: AND HOW MUCH IS A PERUTAH? AN EIGHTH OF AN ITALIAN ISSAR'And should you answer: That was only in the time of Moses, but nowadays it is as generally estimated - but when R'Dimi came,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To Babylon. R. Dimi was a fourth century Amora of Palestine, who settled in Babylon on account of Constantine's decree of banishment against the Jewish teachers of Palestine. But even before this scholars regularly travelled to and fro between the Palestine and the Babylonian academies, and R. Dimi and Rabin (i.e., R. Abin) were specially designated for this task, to provide a cultural link between the two. I. Halevy, Doroth, II, 467-473.');"><sup>9</sup></span> he said: R'Simai computed in his time: how much is the perutah?
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