Study Bava Batra folio 111B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
He said to his attendant: Take me away from here, as this man, R' Yehuda Nesia, does not desire to learn but is instead raising difficulties that are easily resolved. And what is the reason he does not receive a double portion? Abaye said: The verse concerning the double portion received by a firstb
The Talmud asks: And why not say that this statement applies in the case of a bachelor who married a widow, i.e., a man who marries a woman who already has children from another man, so that the firstborn son is his firstborn but not hers, but in the case of a bachelor who married a virgin, so too
Rav Naḥman bar Yitzḥak said: There is a different derivation teaching that halakha, as the same verse states: “For he is the first fruits of his strength [ono]” (Deuteronomy 21:17), indicating that the halakha of the double portion is stated with regard to his strength, but not her strength, ther
The Talmud challenges: But that verse is required to derive the halakha of a child who came into the world after his mother gave birth to non-viable newborns who did not reach the full term of 9 months. This verse teaches that such a firstborn son should be a firstborn with regard to inheritance, e
The Talmud answers: If so, that the sole purpose of the term: “His strength” is to teach that halakha, let the verse say: For he is the first fruit of strength [on], omitting the possessive “his,” represented by the letter vav. What is derived from the more expanded term: “His strength [ono],” wh