The Obligations of Contractors

m. Bava Metsi‘a 6:1

70–220

If one hired craftsmen and they deceived each other, they have no legally valid complaint against each other but only cause for complaint. If one hired a donkey driver or a wagon driver to bring litter bearers or pipers for a bride or for the dead, or laborers to take his flax out of the steep, or any matter that would be lost if delayed, and they retracted, if it was a place where there were no others [who could be hired for the same wage], he may hire others at their [the original workers’] expense, or he may deceive them.

Adapted from the translation of Joshua Kulp.

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m. Bava Metsi‘a 6:1, adapted from Mishnah Yomit, trans. Joshua Kulp, www.sefaria.org. Originally from https://learn.conservativeyeshiva.org. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) License.

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 2: Emerging Judaism.