Commentary for Bava Batra 244:13

ועוד מאי אלא

and [wherever] an anonymous statement [is] followed by a dispute the law is not [decided] in accordance with the anonymous statement!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' What, then, is the object of our Mishnah? ');">³⁵</span> Furthermore, what [is the force of] EXCEPT?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. p. 506, n. 2. ');">³⁶</span> But, said Mar son of R. Ashi, it is this that was meant: Both a son and, [in the absence of a son], a daughter [have] equal [rights of succession] in the estate of a mother and in the estate of a father, except<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The force of 'except' is that while in the previous case there is equality in the loss' between the estate of a father and that of a mother, in the following case there is a difference between these two kinds of estate. ');">³⁷</span>

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