Commentary for Bava Batra 259:10
אמר ליה אביי הא מלא יוכל לבכר נפקא
[the views of] R. Johanan b. Beroka, only some [words are] missing [from the text] which should read as follows:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'and thus it teaches'. ');"><sup>18</sup></span> IF A PERSON SAID, 'X SHALL BE MY HEIR', WHERE THERE IS A DAUGHTER, [OR IF HE SAID], 'MY DAUGHTER SHALL BE MY HEIR', WHERE THERE IS A SON, HIS INSTRUCTIONS ARE TO BE DISREGARDED, but [in the case of the appointment as heir of] a daughter among the [other] daughters or [of] a son among the [other] sons, if [the father] said, [that one of them]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Whom he named. ');"><sup>19</sup></span>
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