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וצבי לגינה ולחצר ולביברין — [חייב]. רבן שמעון בן גמליאל אומר: לא כל הביברין שוין. זה הכלל: מחוסר צידה — פטור, שאינו מחוסר צידה — חייב.
and for trapping a deer into a garden, or into a courtyard, or into an enclosure [bivar], he is liable. Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel says: Not all enclosures are identical. This is the principle: If the trapping of the animal is inadequate and it is still necessary to pursue and apprehend it, one is not liable. However, if one trapped a deer into an enclosure in which the trapping is not inadequate, he is liable.
גמ׳ תנן התם: אין צדין דגים מן הביברין ביום טוב, ואין נותנין לפניהם מזונות. אבל צדין חיה ועוף, ונותנין לפניהם מזונות. ורמינהו: ביברין של חיות ושל עופות ושל דגים — אין צדין מהם ביום טוב, ואין נותנין לפניהם מזונות. קשיא חיה אחיה, קשיא עופות אעופות.
Talmud: We learned in the Mishnah there in tractate Beitza: One may not trap fish from the enclosures on a Festival, nor may one place food before them, because it is prohibited to feed an animal that may not be eaten on the Festival. However, one may trap an animal or a bird from its enclosures and slaughter them, and one may also place food before them. The Talmud raises a contradiction from that which was taught in the Tosefta: From enclosures of animals, of birds, and of fish, one may not trap on a Festival, nor may one place food before them. This is difficult due to a contradiction between the ruling with regard to an animal in the Mishnah and the ruling with regard to an animal in the Tosefta. This is similarly difficult due to the contradiction between the ruling with regard to birds in the Mishnah and the ruling with regard to birds in the Tosefta.
בשלמא חיה אחיה לא קשיא: הא רבי יהודה, הא רבנן.
The Talmud says: Granted, with regard to the contradiction between the ruling concerning an animal in the Mishnah and the ruling concerning an animal in the Tosefta, it is not difficult, because this, the Tosefta that prohibits trapping and feeding the animals in the enclosures, is in accordance with the opinion of R' Yehuda cited in the Mishnah that an animal trapped into an enclosure whose trapping is inadequate, i.e., it is still necessary to pursue and apprehend the animal, is not considered trapped. That, i.e., the Mishnah in Beitza, which permits trapping and feeding the animals in the enclosures, is in accordance with the opinion of the Rabbis, who said that animals in an enclosure are considered trapped.