Reference for Bekhorot 47:60
והיינו דאמר רבי יוחנן בעי
- One may still say that R'Johanan is in no doubt that the law is in accordance with R'Simeon B'Gamaliel.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That it is certainly exempted from the law of the firstling, for if the offspring were not its own, it would not have given suck unless it had already given birth.');"><sup>36</sup></span> He is in doubt, however, whether R'Simeon B'Gamaliel holds that an animal which has given birth, gives suck [even to a stranger],<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' It is therefore exempt from the law of the firstling. for if the offspring belongs to the animal, then it is exempt. and if it is a stranger. then the animal must have already given birth, since it gives suck to strangers. It is also forbidden to be eaten, for the offspring might be a stranger and its own might have died,');"><sup>37</sup></span> or whether it does not give suck [to a stranger].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And it is therefore permitted to be eaten, for it certainly belongs to the animal to which it clings.');"><sup>38</sup></span> If so, instead of stating [this ruling] in connection with the case of a swine, why not state it in connection with the case of a lamb, and as regards the punishment with lashes for infringing the prohibition of killing the mother and its young [on the same day]? - He had need to state [this ruling] in connection with the case of a swine. For if he had stated [this ruling] in connection with the case of a lamb, I might have thought that even if you assumed that R'Simeon holds that an animal which gives birth, gives suck [to a stranger], this only applies [to a stranger belonging] to its own species, but not to [an animal] not belonging to its own species.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., a swine. And it is permitted to be eaten, for to one not belonging to the ewe species it would not give suck, and since the animal does give suck, it must of a certainty belong to it.');"><sup>39</sup></span> Consequently. R'Johanan states the case of a swine [to inform us that this ruling applies] although it does not belong to the species [of the ewe], for even here one can say that perhaps it gave suck. And this is what R'Johanan meant above.