Commentary for Temurah 51:37

בהמה של שני שותפים הקדיש חציה שלו וחזר ולקח חציה אחרת והקדישה קדושה ואינה קריבה ועושה תמורה ותמורתה

Its exchange also is such in virtue of a suspended holiness.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And therefore the exchange cannot be in a better position than the original animal from which it draws his holiness.');">²³</span> R'Johanan said: If an animal belonged to two partners and one dedicated his half and then proceeded to purchase the other half and dedicated it, [the animal] is holy but is not offered;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since when at first he dedicated his half, the animal was not fit to be offered at the altar, for half of an animal by itself cannot be offered, and the holiness of the other half, since it was not his, could not spread to the rest of the animal.');">²⁴</span> it effects exchange and its exchange

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