Commentary for Kiddushin 13:18

שמע מינה תלת

There, a woman is not eligible to two [men]; but is not a man eligible to two [women]? Hence this is what he said to her: 'Should I desire to marry another, I may do so.' Mar Zutra, son of R'Mari, said to Rabina: Yet let the kiddushin spread through the whole of her.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' When he says: 'half of thee betrothed to me.'');">²⁰</span> Has it not been taught: If one declares, 'Let the foot of this [animal] be a burnt-offering,' the whole of it is a burnt-offering? And even on the view that it is not all a burnt-offering, that is only if one dedicates a limb<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'thing'.');">²¹</span> upon which life is not dependent; but if he dedicates a limb upon which life is dependent [e.g. , the heart], it is all a burnt-offering!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And surely life is dependent on half a woman's body.');">²²</span> - How compare? There it is an animal, whereas here we have an independent<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'another'.');">²³</span> mind.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The woman refuses to let the kiddushin spread through the whole of her.');">²⁴</span> This can only be compared with R'Johanan's dictum: An animal belonging to two partners: - if one [of them] dedicates half, and then purchases it [the other half] and dedicates it, it is holy, yet cannot be offered up;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since it was not fit for offering originally, as the half belonging to the other partner was yet secular. Hence it must now be sold, and an animal purchased with the proceeds and sacrificed. Thus the sanctity of the half does not spread over the whole, since the partner does not wish it.');">²⁵</span> and it establishes [the sanctity of] a substitute,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The reference is to Lev. XXVII, 33: neither shall he change it (sc. a consecrated animal) : and if he changed it at all, then both it and the change thereof shall be holy. Thus here too, if one substituted another animal for this one, the substitute also is holy.');">²⁶</span> and the substitute is as itself.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' It may not be sacrificed, but must be sold, as in n. 7.');">²⁷</span> This proves three things:

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