Tosefta for Bava Batra 213:9

מאן דאמר נדון במנה מילתא מציעתא רבי אליעזר בר' צדוק אומר נדון בתשעים קא סבר הא ארעא

down [to the estate of male orphans] to assess it,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' With the object of selling it for the maintenance of the dead owner's widow or his orphan daughters. ');">¹⁷</span> [and] one values [the estate] at a <i>maneh</i><span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' None of them having undertaken to make good the loss of any of the others. ');">¹¹</span> and the two value [it] at two hundred <i>zuz</i>, [or if] one values it at two hundred <i>zuz</i> and the two value it at a <i>maneh</i>,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Maneh hundred zuz or twenty-five sela'. A sela' four zuz. ');">¹⁸</span> the one, being in the minority, is overruled.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The opinion of the two who are in the majority is to be followed. (Cf. Ex, XXIII, 2.) ');">¹⁹</span> [If] one values [the estate] at a <i>maneh</i>, one at twenty [<i>sela'</i>],<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., five sela less than a maneh. (V. p. 444, n. 11). ');">²⁰</span> and one at thirty [<i>sela'</i>], it is to be adjudged at a <i>maneh</i>. R. Eliezer b. R. Zadok, said: It is to be adjudged at ninety [<i>zuz</i>]. Others said: [The difference]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Between the lowest valuation and the highest, i.e., between the thirty. and the twenty, sela', amounting to ten sela'. ');">²¹</span> between them is calculated and divided by three.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ten sela' equal 40 zuz. 40/3 = 13 1/3]. This quotient is added to the lowest valuation which is 20 sela' or 80 zuz. Thus, 80 + 13 1/3 = 933 zuz. ');">²²</span> He who said, 'It is to be adjudged at a maneh', [adopts the] middle course.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The average of 80 zuz (or twenty sela' which is the lowest valuation) and 120 zuz (or 30 sela', the highest valuation). (80 + 120) / 2 = 100 zuz or a maneh. ');">²³</span> R. Eliezer b. R. Zadok, [who] said, 'It is to be adjudged at ninety', is of the opinion [that] the land

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