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According to the Mishna, when a person sells an olive press – a beit habad – it includes the yam, the memel and the betulot, but not the avirim, the galgal or the kora. When the seller specified that he was selling the entire contents of the beit habad, then all are included. According to Rabbi Eliezer, the kora is included in all situations.
Although the Gemara asks for definitions of all of these terms, their actual meanings remain unclear to us today.
We explore the use of the olive press and its cultural and ritual valence in antiquity.