Arachin 29a

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Arakhin 29a

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Topic

Where סתם חרמים go, how each side learns its laws, רב's ruling, the פומבדיתא case, and רבי ישמעאל on consecrating a בכור

Overview

The גמרא opens with a ברייתא. חרמי כהנים cannot be redeemed: they are הקדש while still with the owner and become ordinary חולין once the כהן receives them. It then asks what each side of the משנה's מחלוקת learns from the other side's פסוק. רבי יהודה בן בתירא uses ״כשדה החרם״ to teach that a כהן who made his own שדה חרם into הקדש does not keep it at the יובל. The רבנן learn that law from the extra ה in ״החרם״. Next, רב rules like רבי יהודה בן בתירא, and the גמרא explains this through a tradition that reverses the names in the משנה. A story in פומבדיתא shows רב יהודה letting a man redeem his חרם onto four זוזים, while עולא would have given everything to the כהנים. A ברייתא ties שדה החרם to the יובל, and the גמרא answers that this applies only to land in ארץ ישראל. Finally, a new משנה has רבי ישמעאל settle two clashing פסוקים about making a בכור holy, the גמרא explains the רבנן's reading, and the chapter ends with the הדרן.

Opening lines

The steps (44)

1. StatementPriestly dedications cannot be redeemed and go to the priest
2. StatementHoly while with the owner, ordinary once with the priest
3. QuestionWhat does רבי יהודה בן בתירא learn from 'as a dedicated field'?
4. ResponseHe needs the verse for a priest who consecrated his own dedicated field
5. ChallengeA logical argument that the priest should keep it
6. ConclusionThe verse overrides the logic
7. StatementThe verse compares the כהן's field to a ישראל's ancestral field
8. ConclusionBoth fields leave the owner and are divided among the כהנים
9. QuestionWhere do the רבנן learn this law?
10. ResponseThe רבנן learn it from the extra letter ה
11. Statementרבי יהודה בן בתירא does not learn from the extra ה
12. QuestionWhere does רבי יהודה בן בתירא learn that חרם takes effect on קדשים?
13. ResponseHe follows רבי ישמעאל
14. Statementרב rules like רבי יהודה בן בתירא
15. ChallengeWould רב leave the majority?
16. ResolutionThe ברייתא has the names reversed
17. ChallengeWould רב leave the משנה for a ברייתא?
18. Resolutionרב reverses the משנה too
19. ChallengeWhy change the משנה and not the ברייתא?
20. Resolutionרב had a tradition
21. ChallengeThen רב should have said 'like the רבנן'
22. Resolutionרב was speaking to the listeners' version
23. StatementA man in פומבדיתא declares his property חרם
24. ConclusionSo רב יהודה holds plain חרמים go to בדק הבית
25. QuestionWhose view allows redeeming for so little?
26. ResponseLike שמואל: redeeming onto a פרוטה works
27. ChallengeDid שמואל allow it from the start?
28. ResolutionNowadays one may redeem onto less, even at the outset
29. ChallengeThen why not redeem onto just one פרוטה?
30. ResolutionFour זוזים were used to make the matter public
31. Statementעולא would have given everything to the כהנים
32. ConclusionSo עולא holds plain חרמים go to the כהנים
33. ChallengeA ברייתא: some laws apply only when יובל is in force
34. ChallengeThe ברייתא continues: dedicated fields apply only with the יובל
35. Statementגר תושב also applies only with the יובל
36. Responseרב ביבי explains the גר תושב rule with the word 'טוב'
37. ResolutionThe ברייתא is about land, the פומבדיתא story was about movables
38. ChallengeBut the פומבדיתא story also involved land
39. ResolutionLand outside ארץ ישראל counts like movables
40. Statementמשנה: two פסוקים about making a בכור holy seem to clash
41. ResolutionResolving the two verses: value yes, altar no
42. ResponseHow the רבנן use the two פסוקים
43. ResolutionWhy רבי ישמעאל sees no מצוה to declare it holy
44. ConclusionHadran — Closing פרק המקדיש שדהו