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On our daf, the last page of Bav Basra, the Gemara brings Rabba bar bar Ḥana who quotes Rabbi Yoḥanan as saying that Rabbi Yishmael may have offered praise to Ben Nannas, but that that halakha follows Rabbi Yishmael’s position. In fact, Rabbi Yaakov quotes Rabbi Yoḥanan as saying that Rabbi Yishmael disagreed with Ben Nannas even in the case of the choking lender in the marketplace. Thus, Rabbi Yishmael’s position was that an arev can fully commit himself to guarantee someone’s loan, even if it is not at the time that the loan was made. Such a guarantee, however, cannot create a lien on his property.
We end the masechta with Amnon Bazak’s redaction of the talmud and Jeremy Weider’s academic study of talmud . We end with Ben Zion Booker’s theology of Talmud.