Commentary for Yevamot 131:7

<big><strong>גמ׳</strong></big> ועבדי מלוג לא יאכלו בתרומה אמאי להוי כקנינו שקנה קנין דתניא מנין לכהן שנשא אשה וקנה עבדים שיאכלו בתרומה שנאמר (ויקרא כב, יא) וכהן כי יקנה נפש קנין כספו הוא יאכל בו

a possession which his possession has acquired may eat!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The expression, 'the purchase of his money is superfluous' and the text is, therefore, expounded thus: If the purchase of his money, i.e., a priest's wife or slave (who is the priest's acquisition) buy any soul, he (i.e., the one purchased) 'may eat of it'. Why then are not melog slaves, being an acquisition of the priest's wife, permitted to eat terumah? ');">¹³</span> — Whosoever may himself eat may confer the right of eating upon others but whosoever may not himself eat may not confer the right of eating upon others.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The priest's wife in this case is not herself permitted to eat terumah, since her union with this priest is a forbidden one. V. Lev. XXI, 7, 13 and supra p. 441, n. 1. ');">¹⁴</span> May he not, indeed?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'and not'? ');">¹⁵</span>

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