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עד שימשוך ויחזיק. משכו במנה ולא הספיק לפדותו עד שעמד במאתים – נותן מאתים. מאי טעמא – ״ונתן הכסף וקם לו״.
until he pulls or takes possession of it. Additionally, the Temple treasury has the following advantage: If a commoner pulled a consecrated item for the purpose of acquiring it with 100 dinars, and he did not manage to redeem it by paying the 100 dinars to the Temple treasurer before the item’s price stood at 200 dinars, he gives 200 dinars. What is the reason for this? It states: He will give the money and it will be assured to him (see Leviticus 27:19). This indicates that one can acquire an item from the Temple treasury only by the actual transfer of money.
משכו במאתים, ולא הספיק לפדותו עד שעמד במנה – נותן מאתים. מאי טעמא – לא יהא כח הדיוט חמור מהקדש.
By contrast, in the reverse case, when the commoner pulled an item when it was worth 200 dinars, and he did not manage to redeem it before the value of the item stood at 100 dinars, he gives 200 dinars. What is the reason for this? The power of a commoner should not be greater than that of the Temple treasury of consecrated property. Since a commoner completes his acquisition by pulling, the item is acquired by him at that price, and the Temple treasury should not suffer a loss in a case where the commoner could not have reneged on his commitment had he been dealing with another commoner.
פדאו במאתים, ולא הספיק למושכו עד שעמד במנה – נותן מאתים, מאי טעמא – ״ונתן הכסף וקם לו״. פדאו במנה ולא הספיק למושכו עד שעמד במאתים – מה שפדה פדוי, ואין נותן אלא מנה.
Similarly, if the commoner redeemed it at 200 dinars, but he did not manage to pull it before its value stood at 100 dinars, he gives 200 dinars. What is the reason? It states: He will give the money and it will be assured to him, which indicates that the redemption of consecrated property is effected with money. By contrast, if he redeemed it at 100 dinars and did not manage to pull it before it stood at 200 dinars, what he redeemed is redeemed, and he gives only 100 dinars.