Commentary for Kiddushin 56:8
אלא אי סבר לה כר"נ דאמר פירות לא עבדי חליפין ומטבע לא קני במאי מוקי לה על כרחך כרב ששת ס"ל:
As a precautionary measure, lest he say to him, 'Your wheat was burnt in the loft.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. p. 126, n. 7.');"><sup>3</sup></span> Now, the Rabbis enacted a preventive measure only for a usual occurrence, but not for an unusual occurrence.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Such a transaction as described in note 2; consequently, the Biblical law operates.');"><sup>4</sup></span>
Daf Shevui to Kiddushin
Resh Lakish disagrees with R. Yohanan about what acquires. He holds that money does not acquire, and that even from the Torah only meshikhah acquires. The problem is that if he holds like R. Nahman that produce cannot effect barter, how can he understand the mishnah? So in the end, you have to say that he holds like R. Sheshet, who holds that produce can effect barter. So he can interpret the mishnah in the following manner quoted from above: “And produce too can effect a barter. How so? If one barters the meat of ox for a cow, or the meat of donkey for an ox, as soon as one party takes possession, the other assumes liability for what is given in exchange.”
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