Mesorat%20hashas for Bava Batra 229:3

לא מיתוקמא מתניתין כרבי זכריה בן הקצב דקתני ובני אחות ותנא בני אחות ולא בנות אחות ואמרינן למאי הלכתא ואמר רב ששת לקדם

sons [only], but not sisters'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Some read, 'a sister's'. ');">⁶</span> daughters; and the question was asked,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Supra 113b. ');">⁸</span> 'In respect to what law?' And R. Shesheth answered, 'In respect of precedence'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If there are nephews and nieces, the former, not the latter, are the heirs of their uncles. ');">⁹</span> Now, if it were assumed that our Mishnah was [a representation of the views of] R. Zechariah b. Hakkazzab. [it could rightly have been objected]: Surely, he said, 'Both a son and a daughter [have] equal [rights] in [the inheritance of] a mother's estate'!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since the children of a sister become heirs to their uncles, through their mother's right of inheritance, nephews and nieces (i.e., the sons and daughters of the uncles' sister) should have equal rights in their uncles' estates just as they have them in the case of their mother's estate. Our Mishnah which gives nephews precedence over nieces cannot, therefore, represent the views of R. Zechariah. ');">¹⁰</span>

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