Quoting%20commentary for Bava Batra 229:5

ותנא דידן ממ"נ אי דריש מטות אשה נמי תירש את בנה אי לא דריש מטות בן דקודם לבת בנכסי האם מנא ליה

expound, tribes,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hence his view that a son takes precedence (V. n. 3, supra). ');">¹⁵</span> but here,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The proposed deduction from the expression, tribes, that a mother is heir to her son, ');">¹⁶</span> [the case] is different, for Scripture says, And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Num. XXXVI, 8, and this verse deals with a daughter who is heir to her mother, as explained, supra 111a. ');">¹⁷</span> [from which it is to he inferred that] she may inherit from,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H] yoresheth, is the expression used in the Biblical verse. ');">¹⁸</span>

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