Responsa for Bava Batra 270:2

מת יחזרו נכסים למקומן: בעי רבא שבח ששבחו נכסים מאליהם מהו

IF HE DIES THE PROPERTY REVERTS TO ITS OWNER [etc.]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. BaH. a.l. ');">⁴</span> Raba inquired: What [is the law in respect of] the natural appreciation of the estate? As regards appreciation which reaches the carriers<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., fruit, which is carried in baskets. If the land given to him by the brother who acknowledged him was fallow and he improved it so that it produced quantities of fruit. Heb. [H] 'carriers', with the Lamed of the dative. R. Tam reads [H] 'shoulders', with the Lamed of the instrument; i.e., appreciation due to hard and strenuous work (v., supra 42b, Tosaf. s.v., [H].) Cf. 'putting the shoulder to the wheel', a barren track was turned into a fruit-producing field. ');">⁵</span> there is no question at all,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That all the brothers are entitled to have shares in it. ');">⁶</span>

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