Commentary for Temurah 53:12
מי אמר לאתפוסי ולקי או דלמא
he intend to substitute them [the former], or did he intend to redeem them [with the Iatter]?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The same inquiry could have been made with reference to one dedicated blemished animal and one unblemished animal of hullin where he says: Let this be tahath (instead of) this. But since later on the inquiry particularly refers to two animals, the case of two animals is also mentioned here. R. Gershom and the text in cur. edd. have the following reading: Do we say that he means to substitute (i.e., to effect exchange with these animals and there will thus be two transgressions of the prohibitory law) , or perhaps where there exists a way which is permissible, a man would not abandon that which is permitted and do what is forbidden (and consequently he means here to redeem the dedicated animal with the animals of hullin, the latter thus becoming holy in place of the former) .');"><sup>12</sup></span>
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