Mesorat%20hashas for Bava Batra 143:3

מני אי רבי עקיבא הא אמר מוכר בעין יפה מוכר וכל שכן מקדיש אי רבנן הא אמרי מוכר הוא דבעין רעה מוכר אבל מקדיש בעין יפה מקדיש אלא פשיטא רבי שמעון היא

Therefore if he wants to redeem them, he redeems the trees according to their value. What is more, even if he first sanctifies the trees [one after another] and then sanctifies the ground, when he comes to redeem them he must redeem the trees at their actual value and then redeem [the ground] at the rate of fifty <i>shekels</i> for the sowing ground of a <i>homer</i> of barley.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because the sanctification of the trees and the sanctifying of the ground are looked upon as two distinct actions. ');">⁷</span> Who is the authority for these rules? If R. Akiba, surely he says that the vendor sells in a liberal spirit; all the more so then the sanctifier.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And therefore the trees even when sanctified one after another should carry at least some ground with them. ');">⁸</span> If the Rabbis, surely according to them it is the vendor who sells in an illiberal spirit, but the sanctifier sanctifies in a liberal spirit.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Being compared not to a vendor but to a donor, as it says in the Mishnah, IF A MAN SANCTIFIES HIS FIELD, HE SANCTIFIES ALL THESE THINGS. ');">⁹</span>

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