Actual Grip and the Remaining Fabric

Each holder takes the actually gripped portion; the remainder is shared equally with an oath. The equal-division Mishnah concerns holding fringes. Distinguishing gripped fabric from the remainder reconciles the texts.

1. 1Read the source on ז ע״א (7a) and define the case facts.
2. 2A uniform ten-part garment is gripped at two and four parts. Divide the remainder.
3. 3Answer How is the remainder divided? and identify its support in the source.

How is the remainder divided?

1. 01·Mishnah / BaraitaBava Metzia 7a

   תָּנֵי רַב תַּחְלִיפָא בַּר מַעְרְבָא קַמֵּיהּ דְּרַבִּי אֲבָהוּ: שְׁנַיִם אֲדוּקִים בְּטַלִּית

   The baraita states that two gripping a garment each take the portion within grasp and divide the remainder equally with an oath.

2. 02·KushyaBava Metzia 7a

   The Gemara asks how our Mishnah divides the garment equally without accounting for the held portions.

3. 03·TerutzBava Metzia 7a

   Rav Pappa resolves that our Mishnah speaks of grasping the fringes rather than the garment itself.

4. 04·RayaBava Metzia 7a

   Rav Mesharshiya infers that acquiring via a scarf treats the grasped three fingerbreadths as severed, effecting acquisition.

5. 05·KushyaBava Metzia 7a

   The Gemara objects from a bill of divorce tied to a cord, where if the husband can retrieve it she is not divorced.

6. 06·Conclusion of the sugyaBava Metzia 7a

   The Gemara concludes that divorce requires severance which is absent there, whereas scarf acquisition requires merely giving, which is fulfilled.

1. 1How is the remainder divided? Answer in your own words and support your explanation with a phrase from the Gemara.