Commentary for Bava Batra 225:5

אלא אמר רבא אמר קרא ידבקו מטות רב אשי אמר אמר קרא ממטה למטה אחר ובן לאו אחר הוא

R. Joshua b. Korha): Whence [is it proved] that a husband does not receive [as heir] the prospective [estate of his wife]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' An estate, e.g.. bequeathed by her father whom she predeceased. Had her father died first, she would have inherited from him, and her husband would have inherited from her. ');">¹⁴</span> as [he does] that which was [already] in [her] possession? It is said, And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I Chron. II, 22. ');">¹⁵</span> whence could Jair possess [cities] which did not belong to Segub?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. p. 463, n. 11. ');">¹⁶</span> But this teaches that Segub took a wife and she died in the lifetime of those whose heiress she would have been;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'those who cause her to inherit'. ');">¹⁷</span>

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