Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Musar 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>

Shemirat HaLashon

We learned (Bava Bathra 78b): R. Shmuel b. Nachmani said in the name of R. Yonathan (Bamidbar 21:27): "Therefore, the rulers say: 'Let us come to Cheshbon, etc.': 'the rulers' — these are the rulers over their yetzer. 'Let us come to Cheshbon' — Let us come and make the world's accounting ['cheshbon' = account], the loss [entailed by the performance] of a mitzvah against its reward; and the reward of a transgression against its loss." The plain meaning is well known: this [the reward of a mitzvah] is forever, and this [the "loss" of a mitzvah] is temporal. Also, this [the "reward" of a transgression] is a negligible pleasure, and this [the reward of a mitzvah] is awesome. For "one moment of pleasure in the world to come is greater than all the pleasures of this world," and the opposite for transgression.
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