Commentary for Ketubot 120:12

השתא בנה אמרת לא בן חברתה מיבעיא מהו דתימא בנה הוא דחייס עילויה ממציא ליה טפי אבל בן חברתה אי לאו דהוה לה מותר לא הוה ממציא ליה קא משמע לן

Now that you said [that she must] not [nurse] “her own child” was there any need [to state] “nor the child of her friend”? What might you have thought? Her own child she cares about, and she would give him more, but when it comes to her friend’s child, if she did not have extra [milk] she would not give him more. Thus it teaches us [that she may not nurse the child of her friend].

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