Midrash for Kiddushin 33:16
האי מיבעי ליה לכדתניא יכול לא יהו מעניקין אלא מצאן גורן ויקב מנין לרבות כל דבר ת"ל אשר ברכך יי' אלהיך א"כ מה ת"ל צאן גורן ויקב לומר לך מה צאן גורן ויקב מיוחדים שישנן בכלל ברכה אף כל שישנן בכלל ברכה יצאו כספים דברי ר' שמעון רבי אליעזר בן יעקב אומר יצאו פרדות
R'Eliezer B'Jacob said: excluding mules.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which were considered unproductive; cf. Meg. 13 b, Gen. Rab.41 ; the mule was held to be a hybrid. cf. Pes. 54a: Adam took two animals (of different kinds) . . and from them 'came forth a mule': v. Lewysohn, Zoologie, p. 144.');"><sup>22</sup></span> And R'Simeon?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Why does he not exclude mules?');"><sup>23</sup></span> - Mules are themselves capable of improvement.
Sifrei Devarim
"from your flock, from your threshing floor, and from your winepress": I might think, only from these; it is, therefore, written "wherewith the L-rd has blessed you" — to include all things. If so, why is it written "from your flock, from your threshing floor, and from your winepress"? Just as these are distinct in being fit for "blessing" (i.e., fruitfulness), ("bestowal" obtains with all such things) — to exclude money, which is not fit for blessing. These are the words of R. Shimon. R. Eliezer says: to exclude mules, which do not bear.
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