Commentary for Bava Batra 159:4

פירות כוורת נוטל ג' נחילין ומסרס: במה מסרסן אמר רב יהודה אמר שמואל בחרדל אמרי במערבא משמיה דר' יוסי בר חנינא לא חרדל מסרסן אלא מתוך שפיהן חד חוזרות ואוכלות את דובשנן

— R. Kahana replied: One for itself [the first brood]. one for the dam.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The first brood is left as company for the dam. The second brood, viz. the first pair of young doves bred by the first brood, must be left as company for the first brood. R. Kahana explains that the Baraitha speaks of the two broods, the Mishnah of the first only. ');">⁷</span> But if [it is assumed that the] mother dove will be attached to the daughter dove and to the mate left with it, [let it equally be assumed that] the daughter dove also will be attached to its mother dove and to the mate left with it!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Why then is it required to leave a pair of the second issue as company for the first? ');">⁸</span>

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