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Jewish law recognizes that formal loans that are recorded in signed contracts create liens of the property of the borrower that effectively guarantee payment of the loan. Therefore, if a borrower cannot pay back his loan, the lender has the right to take possession of real estate that was owned by the borrower at the time of the loan – even if it has subsequently been sold to a third party.
We just learned that a person might have only intermediate and inferior quality land. We were also exploring whether superior quality land was superior compared with itself or compared with land around the world. Our daf begins with the argument that a person who has only intermediate and inferior quality land proves that the quality of land is compared with that of the world.
We explore Rav Among Bazak’s claim that even though Rambam considers laws derived by the Sages "on the basis of their own reasoning," through the hermeneutical rules by way of which the Torah is expounded, as Torah law, it is still possible that he sees some differences between them and prohibitions explicitly stated in the Torah, and perhaps also between them and accepted interpretations received from Moshe.