Mesorat%20hashas for Bava Batra 186:10

ודלמא כולה רשב"ג היא וחסורי מחסרא והכי קתני המוכר פירות לחבירו וזרען ולא צמחו אפילו זרע פשתן אינו חייב באחריותן (הא זרעוני גינה שאינן נאכלין חייב באחריותן) דברי רשב"ג שרשב"ג אומר (זרע פשתן הוא דאינו חייב באחריותן הא) זרעוני גינה שאינן נאכלין חייב באחריותן

[the objection, however, is that] all [the Mishnah] may be [the teaching of] R. Simeon b. Gamaliel, and [that only a few words are] missing, and [that] this [is what the Mishnah really] teaches: [IF] ANYONE HAS SOLD FRUIT TO ANOTHER. AND [THE BUYER] SOWED THEM AND THEY DID NOT GROW. EVEN [IF THEY WERE] LINSEED, HE IS NOT RESPONSIBLE — these are the words of R. Simeon b. Gamaliel, for R. SIMEON B. GAMALIEL SAID: FOR GARDEN SEEDS WHICH ARE NOT EATEN, HE IS RESPONSIBLE!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Whence, then, is it proved that R. Simeon b. Gamaliel requires the refunding of the expenses? Our Mishnah, then, cannot be the teaching of R. Simeon b. Gamaliel referred to under the authority of those 'others'. ');">¹⁶</span> But [it is] this [teaching of] R. Simeon b. Gamaliel, [reflecting the view of those 'others'] for it has been taught:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Tosef. B.K. X; B.K. 99b. ');">¹⁷</span>

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