Responsa for Bava Batra 314:9

אמר רב נחמן הא מילתא איבעיא לן ושלחו מתם ראשון קנה רב הונא אמר יחלוקו וכן תני רבה בר אבוה יחלוקו אמר רבינא מהדורא קמא דרב אשי אמר לן ראשון קנה מהדורא בתרא דרב אשי אמר לן יחלוקו והלכתא יחלוקו

Rabina said: In the first version,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [Thus, Yad Ramah.] ');">²⁹</span> R. Ashi told us<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' He is said to have lived sixty years, and to have concluded at the age of thirty the first version of his lectures, and at the age of sixty (i.e., during the second thirty years of his life), his second version. [V. Letter of Sherira Gaon, ed. Lewin, 93-94. The tradition connecting R. Ashi with the Editorship of the Talmud is based on this statement, v. Brill, N., Jahrbucher, II, 10. Halevy, Doroth, II, 263ff., however, disputes this.] ');">³⁰</span> [that] the first [creditor] acquired [the right over the land];<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra p. 687, n. 4. ');">³¹</span> the second<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'last'. Cf. p. 687, n. 14. ');">³²</span>

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