Quotation for Gittin 62:10
רב הונא ורב חסדא הוו יתבי חליף ואזיל גניבא עלייהו אמר חד לחבריה ניקום מקמיה דבר אוריין הוא א"ל אידך מקמי פלגאה ניקום אדהכי אתא איהו לגבייהו אמר להו במאי עסקיתו אמרו ליה ברוחות
Passover. Wine is also sold at three seasons — shortly before Passover, shortly before Pentecost, and shortly before Tabernacles. Oil is sold from Pentecost onwards. What is the legal bearing of this remark? — Raba, or, some say R. Papa says: As a guide to partners.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., at these seasons a man may sell without consulting his partner, and if the price subsequently rises the latter has no ground of complaint against him. ');"><sup>8</sup></span>
Ein Yaakov (Glick Edition)
R. Huna and R. Chisda were both sitting. When G'niba was approaching them, one said: "Let us rise for a great scholar." To which the other replied: "Shall we rise for that quarulous man?" Meantime the latter reached them. "In what subject are you discussing now," G'niba inquired of them. "Concerning Ruchoth (winds)," came the response. He then said to them: "Thus said R. Shanan b. Raba, in the name of Rab: 'Four different winds are blowing daily, and the northerly wind accompanies each of them; for, if it were not for the northerly wind which accompanies all the winds, the world would not be able to exist even a short time. The southerly wind is the severest of all, and if not for the [angel on winds] Ben Netz, who stops its severity with his wings, it would destroy the entire world, as it is said (Ib. 39, 26) Is it through thy understanding that the hawk (Netz) flieth along, and spreadeath out his wings towards the south?'"
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