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דפוס פראג 730

Teshuvot Maharam · Prague Edition, Chapter 730

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    תשל. דין זה נשאל למורי אדם השכיר לבעל הבית לתת לו מזונות בג' זקוקי' לשנה ואכל עמו שבועים קודם התנאי ולאחד שבועים עשו התנאי [א"ל הא חדרי' לצרכך וסבר וקבל] ואכלו ביניהם ג' פשיטים כמו שעושי' [ליינקויף] ולאחר מכאן חזר בו ורצו להביא ראי' [מסיטמותא] באתרא דנהיגי למקני קני והשיב מו' דאינו דומה [ליינקויף[ אינו דרך לקנות בו אלא גוים והוי דברים בעלמא ויכול לחזור בו.

    Q. A ate at B's table for a period of two weeks and then entered into an agreement with him to board with him for the price of three marks per year. To bind the agreement A and B ate three pennies' worth together, as is the usual form of concluding agreements, which form is called einkauf. Subsequently A changed his mind and sought to invalidate the agreement. Some persons wanted to prove that einkauf was a valid form of concluding a contract from the talmudic law (B. M. 74a) under which the putting of a seal on wine barrels is a valid form of concluding a sale in those cities where it is customary so to conclude a sale of wine.
    A. Eating together as a form of concluding a bargain is a custom current among Gentiles but not among Jews. The agreement, therefore, was not valid and A may retract his offer.
    SOURCES: Pr. 730.

Hebrew: Teshuvot Maharam bar Barukh, Budapest, 1895 · Public Domain

English: Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg, his life and his works, by Irving A. Agus. Philadelphia, 1947 · Public Domain

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