Quoting%20commentary for Bava Batra 350:14

ר' יוחנן ור' שמעון בן לקיש דאמרי תרוייהו מלוה על פה גובה בין מן היורשין ובין מן הלקוחות מ"ט שעבודא דאורייתא

receives [a double portion,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because Biblically land is deemed to have been in their father's virtual possession, and a firstborn son is entitled to a double share in all that his father possessed. Cf. Deut. XXI, 17. ');">²⁴</span> but] if money was collected, he does not, and R. Nahman said: If money was collected he has [a double portion]!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra 124b; B.K. 43a. At any rate, in view of this statement of Rabbah's, the debtor's land is Biblically deemed to be in the creditor's virtual possession; how then could ho say here that the hypothecary obligation is not Biblical? ');">²⁵</span>

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