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Halakhah for Chagigah 28:1

הא בדברי תורה הא במשא ומתן בדברי תורה הוו במשא ומתן לא הוו.

This is regarding matters of Torah, and this is regarding matters of business. Regarding matters of Torah, they were; and with business, they were not."

Sefer HaChinukh

Not to castrate one of all of the species: To not castrate one of all of the species - not a man and not a beast and not a bird, as it is stated (Leviticus 22:24), "and in your land you shall not do [it]." After the verse mentioned, "And a crushed, and a pounded and a disconnected and a cut," which is stated about the [sexual organs], it stated, "and in your land you shall not do [it]." And the explanation came about it (Chagigah 14b), "[To] all in your land you shall not do [it]" - meaning to say this shall not be done among Israel; or its explanation is from every species in your land you shall not do [it]. And "[to] all in your land you shall not do [it]" includes man and beast and all animals. And the content of the verse is not to say that there only be a prohibition of castration in the Land. And explicitly did they, may their memory be blessed, say in Shabbat 110b in the chapter [entitled] Shmoneh Sheratsim, "We learned, 'From where [do we know] about castration of a man, that it is forbidden? [Hence] we learn to say, "and in your land you shall not do [it]" - you shall not do it in (to) you.'"
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