Mesorat%20hashas for Arakhin 8:45

נפשות נפשות ולא את המת

- No Scriptural text is necessary for these, because the balance [between them] is even, hence all may be inferred therefrom.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The word 'nefesh' (person, soul) allows with even logic a number of inferences: any person, male or female, may dedicate or he dedicated; person as well as persons may be dedicated; anything that is vital (to person, or soul) may be dedicated, even if it be but part of a person. Anyone of these inferences are therefore 'balanced', evenly justified and neither could one be inferred exclusively as more logical than the other. But the inclusion of one disfigured or afflicted with boils, which would have seemed incongruous because such persons cannot have their worth vowed, needed some textual justification or at least intimation, and that is provided by the plural 'persons', which includes even persons disfigured etc.');">¹⁴</span>

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