Soncino English Talmud
Bava Batra
Daf 73a
Why does he not say: Between R. Simeon and the Rabbis? — He intimates in this way that R. Menahem b. Jose was of the same opinion as R. Simeon. MISHNAH. HE WHO SELLS A SHIP SELLS [IMPLICITLY] ITS MAST, SAIL, ANCHOR AND ALL THE IMPLEMENTS NEEDED FOR DIRECTING IT, BUT HE DOES NOT SELL THE CREW, NOR THE PACKING-BAGS, NOR THE STORES. IF, HOWEVER, HE SAID TO HIM: 'IT AND ALL THAT IT CONTAINS', THEN ALL THESE ARE INCLUDED IN THE SALE. GEMARA. TOREN is the mast; for so it is written: They have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee. NES is the sail; for so it is written: Of fine linen with richly woven work from Egypt was thy sail, that it might be to thee for an ensign. [As to] OGEN, R. Hiyya taught: These are its anchors; for so it is written: Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? Would ye shut yourselves off for them and have no husbands? AND ALL THE IMPLEMENTS NEEDED FOR DIRECTING IT — R. Abba said: This refers to the oars; for so it is written: Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars. And if you desire, you may infer it from the following text: And all that handle the oar shall come down from their ships. Our Rabbis taught: He who sells a ship sells [implicitly] its wooden implements and its [sweet water] tank. R. Nathan says: He who sells a ship sells implicitly its buzith. Symmachus says: He who sells a ship sells [implicitly] its dugith. Raba said: Buzith and dugith are the same: R. Nathan, the Babylonian, called it Buzith, as they say [in Babylon]' the Buziatha of Maisan'; while Symmachus. who was a Palestinian, called it Dugith, for so it is written: And your residue [shall be taken away] in fishing boats. Rabbah said: Seafarers told me: The wave that sinks a ship appears with a white fringe of fire at its crest, and when stricken with clubs on which is engraven. 'I am that I am, Yah, the Lord of Hosts, Amen, Amen, Selah', it subsides, Rabbah said: Seafarers told me: There is a distance of three hundred parasangs between one wave and the other, and the height of the wave is [also] three hundred parasangs. 'Once,' [they related], 'we were on a voyage, and the wave lifted us up so high that we saw the resting place of the smallest star, and there was a flash as if one shot forty arrows of iron; and if it had lifted us up still higher. We would have been burned by its heat. And one wave called to the other: "My friend, have you left anything in the world that you did not wash away? I will go and destroy it." The other replied: "Go and see the power of the master [by whose command] I must not pass the sand'[of the shore even as much as] the breadth of a thread"; as it is written: Fear ye not me? saith the Lord; will ye not tremble at my presence? who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, an everlasting ordinance, which it cannot pass. Rabbah said: I saw how Hormin the son of Lilith was running on the parapet of the wall of Mahuza, and a rider, galloping below on horseback could not overtake him. Once they saddled for him two mules which stood
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