Jan. 12th, 2017

cellio: (talmud)
If somebody wishes to sell his field, the talmud applies a law of preemption, giving his neighbors the right of first refusal. This is because it is easier to maintain adjacent fields, so there is more benefit to a neighbor getting a double field than there is to having two separately-owned fields. The g'mara on today's daf discusses several cases in which preemption does not apply, including the following:

If a stranger wishes to purchase the land to build houses, and the abutting neighbor wants the land for sowing, habitation is more important and there is no preemption. If a rocky ridge or a plantation of young palm trees lies between the fields, we consider: if the abutting neighbor can enter the field even with a single furrow, i.e. there is some place along the boundary where they connect and he could plow through, then the neighbor can preempt the sale, but if not, not. And if a field has four neighbors and one forestalls the others, it is valid, but if they all come together to buy, the field is divided along the diagonals (so everybody gets a wedge). (108b)

There is a diagram on the page of the division into four.

pick one

Jan. 12th, 2017 09:29 pm
cellio: (demons-of-stupidity)
A Glassdoor review of a former employer includes these two bits:
Pro: You can get lost in the masses with over 90,000 employees. Great for under-achievers.

Con: Lots of dead wood.

C'mon, pick a side. :-)

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