Mesorat%20hashas for Bava Metzia 191:24

בעי רמי בר חמא בעל בנכסי אשתו

this is R. Joshia's view. R. Jonathan said: We find in the whole Torah that a man's agent is [legally] as himself.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hence the vows are annulled. The same reasoning applies to the problem under discussion. ');">²¹</span> R. 'Ilish asked Raba: What [is the law] if one says to his slave, 'Go and loan yourself together with my cow'? The problem arises whether it be maintained that a man's agent is as himself or not. [Thus:] The problem arises on the view that a man's agent is as himself, for that may apply only to an agent who is subject to [Scriptural] commands, but not to a slave, who is not subject thereto.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra, 71b and 72a. ');">²²</span> Or, on the other hand, even on the view that a man's agent is not as himself, that may hold good of an [independent] agent, but as for a slave, 'the hand of a slave is as the hand of his master'?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., having no independent existence, his actions are certainly like those of his master. ');">²³</span> — He replied: It is logical that 'the hand of a slave is as the hand of his master.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hence it is accounted as though the owner is in the borrowers service. ');">²⁴</span> Rami b. Hama propounded: Does the husband rank as a borrower in his wife's property,

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