Kiddushin 52b

קידושין נ״ב ע״ב

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Topic

קידושין with property that is not truly the man's own: stolen items and a כהן's share of קרבנות

Overview

The גמרא first settles a contradiction about a man who betroths a woman with something he took from her. It works only if they had already arranged the match. Next come three stories brought before רבא: coins grabbed from a stranger, a sharecropper's handful of onions, and a brewer's beer sediment. In each case the betrothal fails, because the owner never truly gave up or allowed use of the item. A ברייתא about separating תרומה without permission shows that the 'go to the better ones' test applies only to תרומה, while the brewer's owner spoke out of embarrassment. A new משנה then rules that a כהן cannot betroth with his share of קרבנות, and records disputes about מעשר שני and הקדש. The גמרא explains that after שחיטה the כהנים eat 'from the table of the Most High' and do not own the meat. A story shows רבי יהודה, סומכוס and רבי יוסי arguing whether the case is even realistic. רבי יוחנן then traces their מחלוקת to one פסוק. The amud ends just as רבי יוחנן begins a new statement.

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The steps (25)

1. ChallengeContradiction: stealing from the woman herself
2. ResolutionAnswer: did he arrange the match beforehand?
3. QuestionStory: coins grabbed from a third person
4. Responseרבא: we assume the owner did not give up
5. StatementSharecropper betroths with a handful of onions
6. StatementLimit: a whole bundle is different
7. QuestionBrewer betroths with beer sediment
8. Responseרבא: "go to the better ones" works only for תרומה
9. ProofThe source: separating תרומה from someone else's produce
10. QuestionHow do we know whether the owner minds?
11. ResponseThe test: are there really better ones?
12. ConclusionThe brewer's case is different: the owner was just embarrassed
13. StatementNew משנה: betrothing with a כהן's share of קרבנות
14. StatementBetrothing with מעשר שני: רבי מאיר and רבי יהודה disagree
15. StatementBetrothing with Temple property: on purpose or by mistake
16. ChallengeDoes the משנה go against רבי יוסי הגלילי?
17. ResolutionOwnership exists only while the animal is alive
18. ProofThe משנה's wording 'his portion' supports this
19. Statementרבי יהודה bars רבי מאיר's students, but סומכוס pushes in
20. Statementסומכוס reports that a כהן cannot betroth with his portion
21. Challengeרבי יהודה objects that the case is unrealistic
22. Rejectionרבי יוסי shows the case can really happen
23. StatementThe מחלוקת: רבי יהודה says betrothed, רבי יוסי says not
24. Statementרבי יוחנן: both learn from the same פסוק
25. Statementרבי יוחנן begins a new statement