Commentary for Kiddushin 41:7
א"ל מר זוטרא בריה דרב מרי לרבינא איכא למיפרך מה להצד השוה שבהן שכן הורע כחם ליגאל בשנה שניה תאמר במקדיש שיפה כחו ליגאל בשנה שניה
That their privileges are impaired. for they [cannot] redeem it in the second year;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' One who sells an inherited field cannot redeem it before the third year; and the vendor of a house in a walled city cannot redeem it after the first year.');"><sup>9</sup></span> will you say [the same] of him who sanctifies, seeing that his privilege is strong to redeem in the second year? - Rabina answered him: Because one may reply.
Daf Shevui to Kiddushin
To refute the above argument, we would need to find a feature common to the two known cases (selling an ancestral field, selling a house in walled city) that is not shared by the unknown (consecrating an ancestral field). And this is exactly what Mar Zutra does. The first two have an impaired power, in that they cannot be redeemed in the second year—the one who sells an ancestral field cannot redeem it during the first two years, whereas the one who sells a walled house cannot redeem it after the first year. But one who consecrates an ancestral field can redeem it during the second year. So maybe he can also borrow and redeem or redeem it in halves.
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