Oct 8, 2026 · 18 min · 5 segments
More on buying an animal from a non-Jew, with the question of whether the animal has given birth before. A goat that has offspring during its first year - those must be the first offspring, and the…
So if somebody purchases an animal that's a goat, right? And she has, uh, you know, j- she has offspring during her first year, בדיי לא כהן.
Okay, so in other words, if you know that the goat was under a year and then it has, uh, offspring during that first year, the assumption is it has to have been its first, uh, offspring, and therefore it has to go to the Kohen.
But if she has, uh, offspring from that point onward, right, the status of the offspring is in doubt, meaning maybe they did, the, the goat did have some type of offspring before.
Because the idea is, is that it's typical for, uh, ewes to give birth within the first two years.
But afterwards, it's a safek, right? It could be that if you got the animal after two years of age and then it gave birth for the first, or the first time while it's in the Jew's possession, it's not clear whether or not maybe it did give birth before with the non-Jew.
חרה בת שלוש, right? If the cow and the calves, uh, and, and she gives birth to a calf af- you know, up to three years of age, בדיי לא כהן, that definitely goes to the Kohen.
רבי יוסי ורבי יהודה אומר, Rabbi Yossi, the son of Rabbi Yehuda says, חמורה בת ארבע שנים, that actually we put the donkey up to an age of four years.
So if somebody purchases an animal that's a goat, right? And she has, uh, you know, j- she has offspring during her first year, בדיי לא כהן.
Okay, so in other words, if you know that the goat was under a year and then it has, uh, offspring during that first year, the assumption is it has to have been its first, uh, offspring, and therefore it has to go to the Kohen.
But if she has, uh, offspring from that point onward, right, the status of the offspring is in doubt, meaning maybe they did, the, the goat did have some type of offspring before.
Because the idea is, is that it's typical for, uh, ewes to give birth within the first two years.
But afterwards, it's a safek, right? It could be that if you got the animal after two years of age and then it gave birth for the first, or the first time while it's in the Jew's possession, it's not clear whether or not maybe it did give birth before with the non-Jew.
חרה בת שלוש, right? If the cow and the calves, uh, and, and she gives birth to a calf af- you know, up to three years of age, בדיי לא כהן, that definitely goes to the Kohen.
רבי יוסי ורבי יהודה אומר, Rabbi Yossi, the son of Rabbi Yehuda says, חמורה בת ארבע שנים, that actually we put the donkey up to an age of four years.
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