Quoting%20commentary for Bava Batra 83:3

וכי תימא רב תנא הוא ופליג והא רב ושמואל דאמרי תרוייהו מלוה על פה אינו גובה לא מן היורשים ולא מן הלקוחות

— Are you arguing from a loan to a sale? When a man borrows money, he does so as secretly as possible, in order that his property may not depreciate.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As it will if people know that he is pressed for money. ');">⁵</span> If he sells land, however, he does so as publicly as possible, in order that people may know about it.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And so he may have more offers. Hence there is no contradiction between the two rulings of Rab. ');">⁶</span>

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