Commentary for Temurah 47:55

<br><br><big><strong>הדרן עלך ולד חטאת</strong></big><br><br>

also if you permit him to flay the firstling from the feet he will increase the redemption money]!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And hasten to redeem it, since in the end he sells the skin at a higher price. Why therefore does R. Eleazar hold in a Baraitha that we must not flay dedications rendered unfit for sacrifice from the feet?');">³⁸</span> Said R'Mari the son of Kahana: The improvement in the value of the skin spoils the flesh.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Whatever gain there is as regards the skin remaining intact is lost as regards the flesh, and there is really no profit eventually, since for fear of spoiling the skin he cuts into the flesh, and thus he is no longer able to sell it so well.');">³⁹</span> It was said in Palestine in the name of R'Abin:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The reason why it is forbidden to flay a firstling etc. from the feet.');">⁴⁰</span> Because it appears as if he performed work with dedications.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That he is making a bellows on the animal while the skin is still attached to the animal. It is not, however, actually work since, strictly speaking, no work can legally be performed with dedications after the animal's death, only that it seems like work.');">⁴¹</span> R'Jose B'Abin said: It is forbidden lest he rear [many] herds of dedications rendered unfit for sacrifice.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If you permit him to flay the skin of unfit dedications from the feet, he may detain them and not kill them until smiths come his way. He might therefore be led to rear herds of unfit dedications and use their shearings or work with them, all of which is forbidden even after their redemption.');">⁴²</span> [

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