Commentary for Chullin 135:21

וסיפא מאי קמשמע לן דכיון דיצא ראשו הויא לה לידה

He that was born after a premature child the head of which had even emerged alive, or after a nine-months child the head of which had emerged dead'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The distinction is this: with regard to the law of inheritance the Torah contemplates a viable firstborn child, a child on whose death the ubut ,hatr parent would have to go into mourning (derived by the Rabbis by interpreting , Deut. XXI, 17, 'the beginning of his strength', as 'the beginning of his mourning') . With regard to the law of the redemption of the firstborn, however, it was intended to apply to 'whatsoever openeth the womb', Ex. XIII, 2, whether the child born was living or not.');">¹⁰</span>

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