Kiddushin 50

Chapter 50

א כתנאי (ויקרא כב, כד) ומעוך וכתות ונתוק וכרות כולן בביצים דברי רבי יהודה
1 This<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The question whether castration of testicles is a patent blemish and so frees the slave.');"><sup>1</sup></span> is disputed by Tannaim. And that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut [ye shall not offer unto the Lord]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XXII, 24.');"><sup>2</sup></span> - all these refer to the stones: that is R'Judah's opinion.
ב בביצים ולא בגיד אלא כולן אף בביצים דברי רבי יהודה רבי אליעזר בן יעקב אומר כולם בגיד רבי יוסי אומר מעוך וכתות אף בביצים נתוק וכרות בגיד אין בביצים לא:
2 To the stones and not to the membrum!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Surely if the membrum is cut or broken it is a patent blemish!');"><sup>3</sup></span> But all these refer to the stones too: that is R'Judah's opinion. R'Eliezer B'Jacob said: They refer to the membrum.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' But not to the testicles, which in his view are concealed and do not disqualify the animal.');"><sup>4</sup></span> R'Jose said: 'Bruised and crushed' refer to the stones too,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As then they are more noticeable.');"><sup>5</sup></span>
ג <big><strong>מתני׳</strong></big> בהמה גסה נקנית במסירה והדקה בהגבהה דברי רבי מאיר ור' אליעזר וחכ"א בהמה דקה נקנית במשיכה:
3 whereas 'broken or cut' refer only to the membrum but not to the stones.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For these are less noticeable. - A slave is freed when his master blemishes him in such a way that an animal would thereby be unfit for a sacrifice, and thus the question of his stones is disputed by these Tannaim.');"><sup>6</sup></span> <big><b>MISHNAH: </b></big>LARGE CATTLE<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Of the bovine race - cows, oxen, etc.');"><sup>7</sup></span> ARE ACQUIRED BY MESIRAH<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Delivery, the vendor gives it over to the purchaser.');"><sup>8</sup></span> SMALL CATTLE<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sheep, goats etc.');"><sup>9</sup></span>
ד <big><strong>גמ׳</strong></big> דרש רב בקימחוניא בהמה גסה נקנית במשיכה אשכחינהו שמואל לתלמידי דרב אמר להו מי אמר רב בהמה גסה נקנית במשיכה והאנן במסירה תנן ורב נמי במסירה אמר הדר ביה מההיא הוא דאמר כי האי תנא דתניא וחכ"א זו וזו נקנית במשיכה רבי שמעון אומר זו וזו בהגבהה
4 BY LIFTING: THIS IS THE OPINION OF R'MEIR AND R'ELIEZER.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So the reading in cur. edd. S. Strashun and Alfasi read Eleazar, the reference being to R. Eleazar h. Shammua', a contemporary of R. Meir.');"><sup>10</sup></span> BUT THE SAGES RULE: SMALL CATTLE ARE ACQUIRED BY MESHIKAH. <big><b>GEMARA: </b></big>Rab lectured in Kimhunia:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Neubauer, Geographie, p. 397 identifies Kimhunia with Gamach, a town in upper Armenia; Obermeyer, op. cir. p. 296, (v. also n. 4. a.l.) rejects this identification and places it in the vicinity of Sura.');"><sup>11</sup></span> Large cattle are acquired by meshikah.
ה מתקיף לה רב יוסף אלא מעתה פיל לרבי שמעון במה יקנה אמר ליה אביי בחליפין אי נמי בשוכר את מקומו
5 Samuel, meeting Rab's disciples, said to them, Did Rab rule that large cattle are acquired by meshikah? But we learnt: BY MESIRAH, and Rab too [previously] ruled, by mesirah! Did he then retract from that [view]? - He ruled in accordance with this Tanna. For it was taught: But the Sages maintain, Both [large cattle and small] are acquired by meshikah. R'Simeon said: Both by lifting.
ו רבי זירא אמר מביא ארבעה כלים ומניחן תחת רגליו שמעת מינה כליו של לוקח ברשות מוכר קנה לוקח הכא במאי עסקינן בסימטא
6 R'Joseph demurred: If so, how can an elephant be acquired, according to R'Simeon? - Said Abaye to him: By halifin, or by renting its place.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' It then becomes his temporarily, and the elephant too; v. Mishnah on 26a.');"><sup>12</sup></span> R'Zera said: He [the purchaser] brings four utensils and places them under its feet.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., causes the elephant to step upon them; he is then regarded as having placed it in his utensils, so acquiring it.');"><sup>13</sup></span> Then you may infer from this that when the purchaser's utensils are in the vendor's domain [and a bought commodity is placed in them] the purchaser obtains a title.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For presumably the elephant was standing in the vendor's grounds. But this question is disputed in B.B. 85a.');"><sup>14</sup></span> - The reference here is to an alley.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Adjoining a public thoroughfare: this is a 'no man's land'.');"><sup>15</sup></span>
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