Commentary for Bekhorot 41:11

דכ"ע אמרינן מקצת היום ככולו והכא במחוסר זמן נכנס לדיר להתעשר קמיפלגי

does not accept Ze'iri's teaching. And if you wish [another solution]. I may say: All the authorities concerned agree with Ze'iri's dictum, but the difference between them is whether an animal can give birth before the due number of months is completed. The first Tanna [of the above Baraitha] holds that an animal cannot give birth before the due number of months is completed, whereas, according to R'Simeon, It can give birth before the due number of months is completed. And if you wish [still another solution] I may say: All [the authorities concerned] maintain that an animal does not give birth before the due number of months is completed, and the difference of opinion is whether a part of the day is considered as equivalent to the whole day. According to the first Tanna [above] we do not maintain that a part of the day is considered like a whole day, whereas, according to R'Simeon, we maintain that a part of the day is considered like a whole day. And if you wish [still another solution], I may say: All the authorities concerned agree that a part of the day is considered like the whole day, and the point at issue here is whether animals may enter the shed to be tithed before its due time.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Before the eighth day from its birth. According to the first Tanna of the Baraitha they do not enter to be tithed before the completion of seven days alter their birth, whereas according to R. Simeon, they can be tithed even before that time.');">⁹</span>

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