Commentary for Kiddushin 52:2
תרגומא רב שמואל בר ביסנא קמיה דרב יוסף כגון שנעץ בה מחט א"ל רב יוסף קבסתן איכפל תנא לאשמועי' מחט אמר רב אשי מאן לימא לן דלא תלה בה מרגניתא דשוויא אלפא זוזי
Said R'Joseph to him. You annoy us:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Or, insolent man! hbusn');"><sup>3</sup></span> has the Tanna troubled to teach us about a needle! - Said R'Ashi: who tells us that he did not suspend a pearl on it, worth a thousand zuz?
Daf Shevui to Kiddushin
R. Shmuel b. Bisna locates a case where movables could be on a very tiny piece of land—the person stuck a needle into the ground. Buying this ground would allow one to buy the needle with it. But it would not allow one to buy movables not on the land.
R. Joseph responds that this is absurd—would a baraita teach such a halakhah—one can buy a tiny needle, when he buys a tiny piece of land? Surely the baraita was referring to a more consequential case, one in which a person was trying to buy a very tiny, almost non-existent piece land so that with it he could buy valuable movables that are not on this land.
R. Ashi defends R. Shmuel b. Bisna—perhaps he put a pearl on the end of the needle!
R. Joseph responds that this is absurd—would a baraita teach such a halakhah—one can buy a tiny needle, when he buys a tiny piece of land? Surely the baraita was referring to a more consequential case, one in which a person was trying to buy a very tiny, almost non-existent piece land so that with it he could buy valuable movables that are not on this land.
R. Ashi defends R. Shmuel b. Bisna—perhaps he put a pearl on the end of the needle!
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