Commentary for Sanhedrin 29:2

רב חסדא אמר אבימי במתפיס מטלטלין לערכין האי ערכין המטלטלין מטלטלין של ערכין מיבעי ליה תני מטלטלין של ערכין

he must therefore have spoken with reference to value;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For, according to the Talmudic dictum, 'No man makes a purposeless declaration.' Cf. 'Ar. 5a. ');">³</span> consequently, he must pay its value. But if so, [the words in the Mishnah] VALUATIONS OF MOVABLE OBJECTS should have read VALUATION CAUSED BY MOVABLE OBJECTS?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The difficulty is a grammatical one. [H] is the absolute form, and therefore [H] really means, 'valuations which are movable' the article [H] being here a relative pronoun. The Talmud answers that the genitive particle [H] is to be understood. ');">⁴</span>

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