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בזכרים, אבל בנקבות — דברי הכל: על שחוטין — מתחללין, על חיין — אין מתחללין, גזרה שמא יגדל מהן עדרים.
is specifically with regard to male animals, which do not bear offspring. However, with regard to female animals, everyone agrees that upon slaughtered animals, produce is deconsecrated, but upon animals that are alive, produce is not deconsecrated. The reason is that a decree was issued lest one raise flocks from the females, as typically they bear offspring. The rabbis extended the decree to include males as well. From the fact that the baraita uses the term deconsecrated, and not the term purchased, apparently the sanctity of Sabbatical-Year produce takes effect by means of redemption as well.
אמר רב אשי: מחלוקת בפרי ראשון, אבל בפרי שני — דברי הכל: בין דרך מקח בין דרך חילול. והא דקתני ״לקח״ ״לקח״, איידי דתנא רישא ״לקח״, תנא נמי סיפא ״לקח״.
Rav Ashi said: This dispute whether the sanctity of Sabbatical-Year produce takes effect by means of redemption or only by means of purchase is with regard to the original Sabbatical-Year produce itself. However, with regard to secondary produce purchased in exchange for Sabbatical-Year produce, everyone agrees that its sanctity takes effect both by means of purchase and by means of redemption. And the fact that the baraita cited in support of the opinion of R' Elazar teaches: Purchased, purchased, employing that term even with regard to secondary produce, and not the terms deconsecrated or redeemed, does not prove that sanctity takes effect only by means of purchase. Rather, since the tanna of the baraita taught the first clause of the halakha employing the term purchased, he taught the latter clause employing the term purchased, even though sanctity takes effect even by means of redemption.
איתיביה רבינא לרב אשי: מי שיש לו סלע של שביעית וביקש ליקח בו חלוק, כיצד יעשה? ילך אצל חנווני הרגיל אצלו, ואומר לו: תן לי בסלע פירות, ונותן לו, וחוזר ואומר לו: הרי פירות הללו נתונים לך במתנה. והוא אומר לו: הא לך סלע זו במתנה, והלה לוקח בהן מה שירצה. והא הכא, דפרי שני הוא, וקתני: דרך מקח — אין, דרך חילול — לא!
Ravina raised an objection to the opinion of Rav Ashi: With regard to one who has a sela coin that has the sanctity of the Sabbatical Year and seeks to purchase a garment with it, how should he do so? He should go to the storekeeper whose store he typically patronizes and say to him: Give me fruits in exchange for this sela, and the storekeeper gives him fruits. And then he says to the storekeeper: These fruits that you sold me and that assumed the sanctity of the Sabbatical Year are given to you as a gift. The storekeeper may then eat them as one eats Sabbatical-Year produce. And the storekeeper says to him: Here is a sela for you as a gift, and that person purchases with it whatever he wants, as the sela was deconsecrated. Ravina asks: But here, isn’t it secondary produce, as the sela had previously been exchanged for the original Sabbatical-Year produce, and nevertheless the baraita teaches: By means of purchase, yes, it is effective; by means of redemption, no, it is not?
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