Mesorat%20hashas for Bava Batra 220:12

והאיש את אמו וכו': מנא הני מילי דתנו רבנן

meaning, your sons but not your daughters. But in that case<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'from now'. ');">²³</span> does, <i>That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your sons</i>,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XI. 21. Cf. n. 10 supra. ');">²⁴</span> also mean 'your sons' and not 'your daughters'? — It is different [in the case of] a blessing.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A blessing would include both sexes, though elsewhere the term sons applies to males only. ');">²⁵</span> AND BROTHERS FROM THE [SAME] FATHER INHERIT [FROM]. AND TRANSMIT etc. Whence is this derived? — Rabbah said:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. Yeb. 17b, 22a. ');">²⁶</span> It may be deduced [from a comparison of this] 'brotherhood'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The expression 'brethren', used in Num. XXVII. 9. ');">²⁷</span> with the 'brotherhood' of the sons of Jacob;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' We thy servants are twelve brethren (Gen. XLII, 13). ');">²⁸</span> as there [the brotherhood was derived] from the father and not from the mother, so here [the brotherhood spoken of is that] from the father and not from the mother. What need is there<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In the case of the laws of inheritance. ');">²⁹</span> [for this inference]? Surely it is written, Of his family. and he shall possess it,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Num. XXVII, 11. ');">³⁰</span> [and it has been deduced<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Supra 109b ');">³¹</span> that] the family of the father is regarded [as the] family [but] the family of the mother is not regarded [as the] family! — This is so indeed, but the statement of Rabbah was made with reference to [the law of] levirate marriage.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Where also the expression, 'brethren', is used: If brethren dwell together etc. (Deut. XXV, 5f). Only brothers of the same father are, accordingly, subject to the levirate law. ');">³²</span> A MAN [INHERITS FROM] HIS MOTHER etc. Whence are these laws<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'words'; the laws that a son is heir to his mother as he is to his father, and, moreover, that he takes precedence over a daughter in such an inheritance. The laws in Num. XXVII, 8-9. do not deal with an inheritance from a mother. ');">³³</span> derived? — For our Rabbis taught:

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