Commentary for Menachot 73:7

בעא מיניה פלימו מרבי מי שיש לו שני ראשים באיזה מהן מניח תפילין א"ל או קום גלי או קבל עלך שמתא אדהכי אתא ההוא גברא א"ל איתיליד לי ינוקא דאית ליה תרי רישי כמה בעינן למיתב לכהן אתא ההוא סבא תנא ליה חייב ליתן לו י' סלעים

It was said in the school of R'Jannai, Where the skull of a babe i still tender. Pelemo enquired of Rabbi, If a man has two heads on which one must he put the tefillin? ' 'You must either leave',<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. the school. Rabbi thought that this question was put merely from a desire to scoff at him.');">¹⁰</span> he replied, 'or regard yourself under the ban'. In the meantime there came a man [to the school] saying, 'I have begotten a first-born child with two heads, how much must I give the priest? '<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For his redemption. The fixed sum for redemption was five shekels (sela's in the Rabbinic tongue) , cf. Num. XVIII, 16.');">¹¹</span>

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