Mesorat%20hashas for Kiddushin 101:2

אמר ליה שאני מעשר דאיתיה לחצאים דאי אמר תתקדש פלגא דחיטתא קדשה

- Tithes are different, he replied, because it is possible in the case of half [grains]; for if one declares, 'Let half of each grain be sanctified tithe], it is sanctified.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hence, when he separates excessive tithes, it is as though he declared that only half of each grain in the whole measure shall be tithe. But one cannot betroth half a woman.');">³</span> But cattle tithes are impossible in halves,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' One cannot count off nine animals and then declare the two halves of the next two as tithe.');">⁴</span>

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