Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Talmud for Shabbat 156:6

תנו רבנן המוציא קשר מוכסין עד שלא הראהו למוכס חייב משהראהו למוכס פטור רבי יהודה אומר אף משהראהו למוכס חייב מפני שצריך לו מאי בינייהו אמר אביי איכא בינייהו רהיטי מוכסא רבא אמר מוכס גדול ומוכס קטן איכא בינייהו רב אשי אמר חד מוכס איכא בינייהו מפני שצריך לו להראות למוכס שני דא"ל חזי גברא דמוכס אנא:

PAPER, LARGE ENOUGH TO WRITE A TAX-COLLECTOR'S RECEIPT ON IT. It was taught: How much is a tax-collector's receipt? Two letters.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 'Aruk reads: two Greek letters — which are larger than Hebrew letters. ');"><sup>15</sup></span> But the following contradicts this: If one carries out smooth [blank] paper. if large enough for writing two letters thereon, he is culpable; if not, he is not culpable?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 'Two letters' implies of normal size, which is smaller than tax-collector's letters; v. also preceding note. ');"><sup>16</sup></span> — Said R. Shesheth: What is meant by 'two letters'? Two letters of a tax-collector's receipt. Raba said: [It means] two letters of ours, together with a margin for holding which is the equivalent of a tax-collector's receipt.

Jerusalem Talmud Shabbat

“Anybody who carries out a toll collector’s receipt is liable.” It was stated84Babli 78b, Tosephta 8:11.: “If one carries out a toll collector’s receipt, before he showed it to the toll collector he is liable, after he showed it to the toll collector he is not liable. Rebbi Jehudah says, even after he showed it to the toll collector he is liable since he may show it to another toll collector85According to the Babli, to a supervisor of the toll collector who issued the receipt..” If one carries out a document of indebtedness, before he showed it to the debtor he is liable, after he showed it to the debtor he is not liable. Rebbi Jehudah says, even after he showed it to the debtor he is liable since he may show it to another debtor86Tosephta 8:12, Babli 78a. In the Babli the argument of R. Jehudah is more plausible: As long as the debt is not liquidated, even if the debtor has acknowledged the debt and promised to pay, the document is still needed. Once the debt is liquidated, the document either must be cut into pieces or invalidated in other ways; then its status is not that of a document but of erased paper..
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