Arakhin 67

הן ומגרשיהן

But they as well as their outskirts are to be torn down?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since the cities of the Levites may not be big walled cities.');">¹</span>

הן ומגרש למיסתרינהו קיימי

- R'Ashi said: It is necessary to teach [the law] for one might have assumed that before they are torn down, if any [of the houses] therein have been sold, they should become perpetual possessions, therefore we are informed [that is not so].

אמר רב אשי

Our Rabbis taught: As a field devoted the possession there of shall be the priest's:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XXVII, 21.');">²</span>

איצטריך סלקא דעתך אמינא

what does that teach?

אדמסתתרי מסתתרי אי מיזדבני ליחלטו קא משמע לן

Whence do we know that if a priest consecrated a field obtained by him as [a field of] devotion that he cannot say: Since it anyway goes out to the priests [in the Jubilee year] and now is in my possession, it shall be my own, a fortiori: If I acquire title to what belongs to others, how much more [can I acquire title] to what belongs to me, therefore it is said: 'As a field devoted the possession thereof shall be to the priest'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra 29a.');">³</span>

תנו רבנן

Now what are we learning from [the words]: 'As a field devoted'?

(ויקרא כז, כא) כשדה החרם לכהן תהיה אחוזתו מה תלמוד לאמר

Behold the text came to teach and now it itself is illuminated thereby: we compare the field acquired [by the priest] as [a field of] devotion to an Israelite's field of possession.

מנין לכהן שהקדיש שדה חרמו שלא יאמר

Just as an Israelite's field of possession goes out of his hand and is distributed among the priests, so also does the field which he acquired as [a field of] devotion go out of his hand to be distributed among his brethren the priests.

הואיל ויוצא לכהנים והרי היא תחת ידי תהא שלי

The Master said: 'If I acquire title to what belonged to others'.

ודין הוא בשל אחרים אני זוכה בשל עצמי לא כל שכן

But how can that be compared?

תלמוד לאמר

There he simply acquires title to it, but here he takes himself? - Rami B'Hama said: It is necessary [to state that]: Yo might have assumed since it is written: And every man's hallowed things shall be his,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Num. V, 10 referring to the sacrifices which a priest offers on his own behalf.');">⁴</span>

והיה השדה בצאתו ביובל קודש לה' כשדה החרם

that this also is lik his 'hallowed things'.

וכי מה למדנו משדה החרם מעתה

But how can you compare these?

הרי זה בא ללמד ונמצא למד

His hallowed things are not in his possession,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., he received them from God as a gift for his service.');">⁵</span>

מקיש שדה חרמו לשדה אחוזה של ישראל מה שדה אחוזה של ישראל יוצא מתחת ידו ומתחלקת לכהנים אף שדה חרמו יוצא מתחת ידו ומתחלקת לאחיו הכהנים

whereas this is in his possession!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' He obtains them only after the sacrifice has been offered, as his God-appointed portion of the sacrifice, whereas here he keeps it back for himself without any authority.');">⁶</span>

אמר מר

Rather said R'Nahman: It is necessary to teach this, for you might have assumed since it is written: For that is their perpetual possession.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XXV, 34.');">⁷</span>

בשל אחרים אני זוכה

that this too,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The field once acquired by him as a field of devotion.');">⁸</span>

מי דמי

is his possession;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In perpetuity. ');">⁹</span>

התם זוכה בעלמא הכא קא שקיל ליה

therefore the text 'his possession' informs us that [the law applies] only to his possession but not to anything obtained by him as devotion.

אמר רמי בר חמא

איצטריך סלקא דעתך אמינא

הואיל וכתיב (במדבר ה, י) ואיש את קדשיו לו יהיו הא נמי כי קדשיו דמיא

מי דמי

קדשיו לאו ברשותו הכא ברשותו

אלא אמר רב נחמן

איצטריך סלקא דעתך אמינא

הואיל וכתיב (ויקרא כה, לד) כי אחוזת עולם הוא להם הא נמי אחוזתו היא קא משמע לן

אחוזתו אחוזתו אין חרמו לא

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