Arakhin 56

Chapter 56

א לך יהיה החרים שדותיו נותנן לכהן שבאותו משמר שנאמר (ויקרא כז, כא) כשדה החרם לכהן תהיה אחוזתו וגמר לכהן לכהן מגזל הגר

1 shall be thine.1 If he devoted his field he must give it to a priest of the then officiating guard,2 as it is said As a field devoted,' the possession thereof shall be the priest's,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XXVII, 21. (5) Num. V, 8. There being no heir to this stranger, his property falls to the priests. As in Lev. XXVII, 21 the words 'The possession thereof shall be the priest's' occur here. Hence the inference from analogy of expression.');">3

ב והתם מנלן דתניא (במדבר ה, ח) לה' לכהן קנאו השם ונתנו לכהן שבאותו משמר

2 making the inference from the analogy of [the term] 'the priest's, sin case of robbery of a stranger. And whence do we know it for that case? For it was taught: The Lord's, even the priest's,4

ג אתה אומר לכהן שבאותו משמר או אינו אלא לכל כהן שירצה כשהוא אומר (במדבר ה, ח) מלבד איל הכיפורים אשר יכפר בו עליו הרי בכהן שבאותו משמר הכתוב מדבר

3 i.e., the Lord acquired it and gave it to the priest in that guard. You say, To the priest in that [particular] guard; but perhaps it means to any priest it pleases him [to give it to] When it says, Besides the ram of the atonement, whereby atonement shall be made for him,4 hence Scripture speaks of the priests in that guard.5 The field which goes out to the priests in the year of Jubilee is [also] given to the priests of that [particular] guard. The following question was raised: How if it6

ד שדה היוצאה לכהנים ביובל נותנה למשמר שפגע בו יובל איבעיא להו פגע בו בשבת מאי א"ר חייא בר אמי משמיה דחולפנא נותנה למשמר היוצא

4 fell on a Sabbath? - R'Hiyya B'Ammi in the name of Hulfana said: It is to be given to the departing guard.7 R'Nahman B'Isaac said: Thus was it also taught: It is to be found,8 then, that both the year of Jubilee and the seventh year effect [respectively] the release [of de and land] at the same time, except that the year of Jubilee [effects it] in its beginning and the seventh year a its end.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The wording is incorrect. It is because the end of the seventh year coincides with the beginning of the Jubilee that both effect the release at the same time. What meaning is there then to the 'except that'.');">9 On the contrary! It was just because of this! - Say: Because the year of Jubilee, etc. Granted that th seventh year [effects release] at the end, as it is written: At the end of every seven years, thou shalt make a release,10 but how does the year of Jubilee [effect release] at the beginning?

ה אמר רב נחמן בר יצחק תניא [נמי הכי] נמצאת אתה אומר אחד יובל ואחד שביעית משמטין כאחד אלא שיובל בתחילתו והשמטה בסופה

5 That takes place on the Day of Atonement, as it is written: In the day of atonement shall ye make proclamation with the horn throughout all your land.11 This is the view of R'Ishmael, the son of R'Johanan B'Beroka, who said that the year of Jubilee commenced from the New Year already. Hezekiah son of Biloti heard it,12

ו אדרבה משום הכי הואי אימא מפני שהיובל כו'

6 and he went and reported it to R'Abbahu. [The latter asked:] But let him compare movable property to immovable property? - But is it not a matter of dispute among Tannaim, there being some who compare the one to the other,13 whilst some there are who do not?14

ז בשלמא שביעית בסופה דכתיב (דברים טו, א) מקץ שבע שנים תעשה שמטה אלא יובל בתחילתו ביום הכיפורים הוא דכתיב (ויקרא כה, ט) ביום הכיפורים תעבירו שופר בכל ארצכם הא מני ר' ישמעאל בנו של רבי יוחנן בן ברוקה היא דאמר מר"ה הוא דחייל יובל

7 And he [R'Hiyya B'Abin] holds with the view that we do not make that comparison. <big>MISHNAH: </big>THINGS DEVOTED FOR [THE USE OF] THE PRIESTS CANNOT BE REDEEMED BUT ARE TO BE GIVEN TO THE PRIESTS. EVEN AS TERUMAH.15 R'JUDAH B. BATHYRA SAYS: THINGS DEVOTED GENERALLY16 FALL TO [THE FUND FOR] TEMPLE REPAIRS, AS IT WAS SAID: EVERY DEVOTED THING IS MOST HOLY UNTO THE LORD.17 BUT THE SAGES SAY: THINGS DEVOTED GENERALLY FALL TO THE PRIESTS, AS IT IS SAID: AS A FIELD DEVOTED: THE POSSESSION THEREOF SHALL BE THE PRIEST'S.18 IF SO, WHY IS IT SAID: 'EVERY DEVOTED THING IS MOST HOLY UNTO THE LORD'?

ח שמעה חזקיה בר בילוטו ואזל אמר קמיה דר' אבהו וליקיש מטלטלי לקרקעות

8 [THAT IS TO TEACH] THAT IS APPLIES TO THE MOST HOLY AND THE LESS HOLY THINGS. A MAN MAY DEVOTE WHAT HE HAS ALREADY CONSECRATED, WHETHER THEY BE MOST HOLY THINGS OR LESS HOLY THINGS.

ט לאו תנאי היא דאיכא דמקיש ואיכא דלא מקיש כמ"ד לא מקשינן:

9 IF [THEY HAD BEEN] CONSECRATED AS A VOW, HE MUST GIVE THEIR VALUE,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If he vowed to bring an offering and after designating an animal for the purpose he devoted it, since if that animal died or was stolen he would be liable to replace it, the animal is still regarded as being in his possession and the animal is devoted. As, however, an animal once designated as an offering may never be used for any other purpose, the devoter must pay its full value to the priest, whilst the animal itself is to be sacrificed for the purpose to which it originally had been designated by its owner. The same would apply if the sacrifice in question had not been vowed but obligatory.');">19 IF AS A FREEWILL-OFFERING, HE MUST GIVE WHAT IT IS WORTH TO HIM.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If without vow or earlier liability he designated an animal as a freewill-offering, then he must pay the amount at which he valued his satisfaction with the fact that he was able to bring this offering.');">20

י <big>מתני׳</big> חרמי כהנים אין להם פדיון אלא נותנים לכהנים כתרומה ר' יהודה בן בתירא אומר סתם חרמים לבדק הבית שנאמר (ויקרא כז, כח) כל חרם קדש קדשים הוא לה'

10 [IF, E.G. , HE SAID:] LET THIS OX BE A BURNT-OFFERING, ONE ESTIMATES HOW MUCH A MAN WOULD PAY FOR THE OX TO OFFER IT AS A BURNT-OFFERING, WHICH HE WAS NOT OBLIGED [TO OFFER]. A FIRSTLING, WHETHER UNBLEMISHED OR BLEMISHED, MAY BE DEVOTED. AND HOW CAN IT BE REDEEMED? THEY [WHO REDEEM IT] ESTIMATE WHAT A MAN WOULD GIVE FOR THIS FIRSTLING IN ORDER TO GIVE IT TO THE SON OF HIS DAUGHTER OR TO THE SON OF HIS SISTER.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A firstling, by reason of being a firstling, is a sacrifice due, which the owner is obliged to hand to the priest. And if the owner, before bringing this animal to the priest had devoted it, he can redeem it by estimating how much a man would give to him to have that firstling given to his relatives, who are priests. A priest must not pay to an Israelite with the view of being favoured as to the latter's priestly gifts. V. Bek. 27a.');">21

יא וחכ"א סתם חרמים לכהנים שנאמר (ויקרא כז, כא) כשדה החרם לכהן תהיה אחוזתו א"כ למה נאמר כל חרם קדש קדשים הוא לה' שחל על קדשי קדשים ועל קדשים קלים

יב מחרים אדם את קדשיו בין קדשי קדשים בין קדשים קלים אם נדר נותן דמיהן

יג ואם נדבה נותן את טובתן שור זה עולה אומדין כמה אדם רוצה ליתן בשור זה להעלותו עולה אף על פי שאינו רשאי

יד הבכור בין תם בין בעל מום מחרימין אותו וכיצד פודים אותו אומדין כמה אדם רוצה ליתן בבכור זה ליתנו לבן בתו או לבן אחותו:

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