Study Bekhorot folio 13B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
Just as property is acquired from your counterpart through only one act of acquisition, i.e., pulling, so too, property is acquired from a non-Jew through only one act of acquisition, i.e., payment of money.
The rabbis said: And according to the opinion of Ameimar, who says that pulling effects acquisition in the case of a non-Jew, this works out well if he holds in accordance with the opinion of R' Yoḥanan, who says: By Torah law, money effects acquisition, but pulling does not. If Ameimar accepts R'
But if Ameimar holds in accordance with the opinion of Reish Lakish, who says: The act of acquisition of pulling is explicit in the Torah, then the halakha is that transactions with your counterpart are effected by pulling, and transactions with a non-Jew are also effected by pulling. Accordingly
The rabbis said in explanation: The phrase “of your counterpart” does not teach a halakha with regard to the method of acquisition. Rather, it is referring to the latter part of the verse: “And if you make a sale to your counterpart, or buy of your counterpart’s hand, a man shall not exploit his bro
The Talmud responds: One phrase is required to exclude a non-Jew, and one serves to exclude consecrated property. And both derivations are necessary, as, had God written only one exclusionary phrase, I would say: It is with regard to transactions with a non-Jew that one is not subject to the prohibi