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Mishnayos Bava Metzia Perek 3 Mishnah 5

בבא מציעא פרק ג׳ משנה ה׳

5

And likewise, if two people deposited two vessels, one worth one hundred dinars and one worth one thousand dinars, and this one says: The expensive vessel is mine, and that one says: The expensive vessel is mine, the bailee gives the small vessel to one of them, and from the proceeds of the sale of the large vessel he gives the value of the small vessel to the other, and the rest of the money is placed in a safe place until Elijah comes. Rabbi Yosei said: If so, what did the swindler lose? Rather, the entire deposit, i.e., both vessels, are placed in a safe place until Elijah comes or one of them admits his deceit.

וְכֵן שְׁנֵי כֵלִים, אֶחָד יָפֶה מָנֶה וְאֶחָד יָפֶה אֶלֶף זוּז, זֶה אוֹמֵר יָפֶה שֶׁלִּי וְזֶה אוֹמֵר יָפֶה שֶׁלִּי, נוֹתֵן אֶת הַקָּטָן לְאֶחָד מֵהֶן, וּמִתּוֹךְ הַגָּדוֹל נוֹתֵן דְּמֵי קָטָן לַשֵּׁנִי, וְהַשְּׁאָר יְהֵא מֻנָּח עַד שֶׁיָּבֹא אֵלִיָּהוּ. אָמַר רַבִּי יוֹסֵי, אִם כֵּן מַה הִפְסִיד הָרַמַּאי. אֶלָּא הַכֹּל יְהֵא מֻנָּח עַד שֶׁיָּבֹא אֵלִיָּהוּ:

ה׳
Bartenura

וכן שני כלים – For the Rabbis, it is necessary for him. For not only this, but also that are taught. Not that it is necessary for one to have a Maneh and the other to have two-hundred Maneh, for there is no loss through the breaking of a utensil, the rabbis said that he should give to this one a Maneh and to that one a Maneh, but even with two utensils where there is loss that it is necessary to break to larger utensil to give from it the monetary value of the smaller one, and when Elijah comes, it is found that the owner of the larger utensil loses when his utensil is broken. And I might think that in this the Sages agree with Rabbi Yosi that everything is left aside until Elijah will come, but it comes to teach us the exact opposite. And the Halakha is like the Sages.

וכן שני כלים. לרבנן אצטריכא ליה. ולא זו אף זו קתני, לא מיבעיא במנה ומאתים דליכא פסידא דשבירת כלי, אמרו רבנן נותן לזה מנה ולזה מנה, אלא אפילו בשני כלים דאיכא פסידא שצריך לשבר הכלי הגדול כדי לתת ממנו דמי הקטן, ולכשיבא אליהו נמצא שבעל הכלי הגדול הפסיד שנשבר הכלי שלו, וסלקא דעתך אמינא דבהא מודו רבנן לר׳ יוסי שהכל יהא מונח עד שיבא אליהו. קמשמע לן. והלכה כחכמים: