Jun 122017
 

According to the mishna, Does a tumtum get the lower amount (like the girls in a case where there is a lot of money and like the boys in the case where there is little money) or does he not receive anything at all?  Why in the case in the mishna does the husband commit 200 if a girl is born and 100 if a boy is born – aren’t boys more preferred than girls?  Three possible answers are brought.  Two tannaitic sources are brought with cases similar to the ones in our mishna but without enough details so the gemara establishes the details of the cases discussed.  A man on his deathbed gave all of his property to his unborn baby.  Rav Huna says this doesn’t work because a fetus can’t acquire items.  Rav Nachman questions him from our mishna where all the cases were giving a gift to a fetus.  Rav Huna rejects the mishna and says he doesn’t know who the author is.  The gemara then questions why Rav Huna couldn’t have given a different answer.  It raises seven possibilities but then rejects them all.

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