Mesorat%20hashas for Kiddushin 58:3

ורבנן סברי מלוה דכתיב באורייתא לאו ככתובה בשטר דמיא והילכך מצוה דגופיה עדיף

hence, with these five sela's [that are free] he redeems his son, while the priest goes and seizes the five sela's [worth] that is sold on account of himself [the father]. But the Rabbis maintain, A debt decreed in Scripture is not as one indited in a bond; therefore a precept touching his own person is more important.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For a creditor can distrain upon mortgaged property that is sold only if he holds a note against the debt.');">³</span> Our Rabbis taught: If one has his son to redeem and the duty of making the festival pilgrimage,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' On Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles every male was to visit the Temple at Jerusalem: Deut. XVI, 16.');">⁴</span>

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