Daf Yomi - Rabbi Chaim Wolosow

The Gemara completes Rav Kahana’s derivation that bought or gifted animals are exempt from ma’aser beheimah, and Rava limits the exemption to purchase at the time of tithing, so fetuses bought in the womb are tithed. Rabbi Elazar defends this against a teaching on mechusar zman, and a teaching on an esnan bought back is explained. https://www.torahrecordings.com/tlamud/005_seder_kodshim/004/056a

Bechoros 55a continues the rules for combining herds for maaser beheimah: the beraisa of Kfar Chananya and Kfar Otnai, Rav Ashi's question about the shepherd's dog, and why Rabbi Meir holds that the Jordan divides. It then defines where the Jordan begins, why it is called Yarden, and why a vow against the Euphrates covers all waters. https://www.torahrecordings.com/tlamud/005_seder_kodshim/004/055a

The Gemara derives by kal vachomer that wine may not be tithed for grain, nor one grain for another, as they are kilayim, and recasts the argument for Rabbi Yoshiyah; other species follow by Rabbinic law. Rava bar Rav Chanan then challenges: cattle and sheep should be tithed one for the other. https://www.torahrecordings.com/tlamud/005_seder_kodshim/004/054a

Perek Maaser Beheimah opens: the animal tithe applies everywhere and even without the Beis HaMikdash, cattle and flocks are tithed separately, sheep and goats together. The Gemara reconciles this with Rabbi Akiva, and asks why the tithe is not taken nowadays: Rav Huna's decree, or Rabbah's concern for a stumbling-block. https://www.torahrecordings.com/tlamud/005_seder_kodshim/004/053a

The Mishnah continues: like the firstborn, the widow for her kesubah, the daughters for their sustenance and the yavam take no share in later improvement or in property still due. The Gemara gives the verses, explains the kesubah rule as a leniency despite Shmuel's ruling on creditors, and brings Abaye and Rava on improvement after yibum. https://www.torahrecordings.com/tlamud/005_seder_kodshim/004/052a

Why the violator and defamer pay in holy shekels; why shekalim, maaser sheni and re'iyah need minted coin. Mishnah: a firstborn is not redeemed with slaves, documents, land or hekdesh. Rebbi (ribui u-miut) allows anything but documents; the Rabbanan's klal u-prat excludes them too; Ravina asks why Rebbi departs from his usual method. https://www.torahrecordings.com/tlamud/005_seder_kodshim/004/051a

Rabbi Yochanan values the five sela'im of pidyon haben in gold dinars; Rava holds the Torah's sela is 3 1/3 dinars, later raised by a sixth, as the exchange between Rav Ashi and Rav Acha shows. Rabbi Chanina on unspecified silver in Torah, Prophets and Writings, and why the coins of Yerushalayim were almost put away. https://www.torahrecordings.com/tlamud/005_seder_kodshim/004/050a

Shmuel resolves the two fathers and one kohen with a power of attorney, and Rav Huna adds two males and a female. The Mishnah rules on a son who dies before, after or on day thirty; R' Akiva's doubt is traced to two verses that come as one. Then a father who dies within or after thirty days, and Rav and Shmuel on redeeming early. https://www.torahrecordings.com/tlamud/005_seder_kodshim/004/049a

The Mishnah: a first-time mother bears two sons, so five sela'im are owed; if the father dies, R' Meir exempts the sons once they divide the estate, while R' Yehudah holds the property liable. Rava rejects R' Yirmeyah's reading and sets the case where only five sela'im are left, applying Rav Assi's rule on brothers who divide. https://www.torahrecordings.com/tlamud/005_seder_kodshim/004/048a

Reish Lakish and R' Yochanan dispute whether a convert's sons born before his conversion count for the bechor of inheritance and for peru u'revu, tested against the Mishnah. Rav Adda exempts a Levite woman's son from pidyon haben; the Gemara asks whom she conceived from and why a kohen's daughter differs. https://www.torahrecordings.com/tlamud/005_seder_kodshim/004/047a