Reference for Kiddushin 41:17

בתי חצרים ושדה אחוזה בהדיא כתיב על שדה הארץ יחשב כדאמר רב נחמן בר יצחק לקרוב קרוב קודם ה"נ לקרוב קרוב קודם

To include all cases of redemption, that they are to be redeemed in this order.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This is assumed to mean that in all cases where redemption is stated it may be by relatives.');">²⁶</span> Surely that refers to houses in walled cities and Hebrew slaves? - No: to houses in villages and 'fields of possession'.' Houses in villages and fields of possession!' these are explicitly provided for, 'they shall be reckoned with the fields of the country'? - It is as R'Nahman B'Isaac said [elsewhere], to teach that the nearer the relation, the greater his precedence; so here too, it is to shew that the nearer the relation, th greater is his precedence.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., in the same order of priority as the kinsmen enumerated in Lev. XXV, 48, 49.');">²⁷</span>

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