Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Kabbalah for Bava Batra 156:6

ר"א דתנן ר"א אומר המוכר את בית הבד מכר את הקורה רשב"ג דתנן רשב"ג אומר המוכר את העיר מכר את הסנטר ר' מאיר דתניא ר' מאיר אומר מכר את הכרם מכר תשמישי הכרם רבי נתן וסומכוס ביצית ודוגית נחום המדי הא דאמרן:

[As to] R. Meir, it has been taught: R. Meir says: He who sells a vineyard has sold the vineyard tools. [As to] R. Nathan and Symmachus, [the case of] the small boat and the fishing boat.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Supra 73a. ');"><sup>15</sup></span> Nahum the Mede, in the case just mentioned.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In the Mishnah, supra 78a. ');"><sup>16</sup></span> R. JUDAH SAYS: SOMETIMES IT IS SOLD, etc. What is the difference between THIS ASS OF YOURS and IS THE ASS YOURS? — Raba said: [When the buyer used the expression,] THIS ASS OF YOURS, he was aware that the ass was his,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The seller's. ');"><sup>17</sup></span>

Derech Etz Chayim (Ramchal)

If man was mindful of this knowledge sinners wouldn't exist, temptation wouldn't even wield power, similar to its irrelevance to angels. G-d wanted man to conquer or to be conquered via temptation and his subsequent choices, and therefore gave us this knowledge that remains latent as a flame is within a coal. Our sages of blessed memory have said (Bava Batra 78b): "Wherefore they who speak in similes (Hamoshlim) say, Come to Ḥeshbon..."(Bamidbar 21:27), 'Hamoshlim' (who speak in similies) - refers to those that control their inclination, "Bo'oo Heshbon (Come to Heshbon) - Come and let us calculate the account (heshbono) of the world! Those that do not conrtol their inclination will never prioritize this - However, those that do control their inclination will practice this and teach others to act as well.
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